Dash Snow

Dash Snow
Born (1981-07-27)July 27, 1981[1]
New York
Died July 13, 2009(2009-07-13) (aged 27)
New York
Nationality American
Known for Photography
Collage
Installation
Movement Graffiti

Dashiell "Dash" Snow (July 27, 1981 – July 13, 2009)[1][2][3] was an American artist, based in New York.

Early life and education

Dashiell A. Snow was born in 1981, the son of Taya Thurman and Christopher Snow. He was also a great-grandson of the founders of the Menil Collection in Houston, Dominique de Menil and John de Menil, French aristocrats who were heirs to fortunes based in textiles and oil-drilling equipment (see Schlumberger).[4] His maternal grandfather was Buddhist scholar Robert Thurman, father of actress Uma Thurman while his maternal grandmother was set and costume designer Marie-Christophe de Menil. He had a brother named Maxwell and a sister named Caroline. As a child he was rebellious, and at 13[1] was sent to the Hidden Lake Academy in Georgia, a residential treatment center specializing in the treatment of children with oppositional defiant disorder.[5] He did not graduate from high school.[5]

Career

Snow began taking photographs as a teenager, he said, as a record of places he might not remember the next day.[6]

In 2006, he was included in the Wall Street Journal article titled "The 23-Year Old Masters", which profiled 10 emerging US artists including Rosson Crow, Ryan Trecartin, Zane Lewis, Barney Kulok, Jordan Wolfson, Rashawn Griffin and Keegan McHargue.[7]

Like photographers Nan Goldin, Larry Clark and Ryan McGinley his photos depict scenes of a sex, drug-taking, violence and art-world pretense with candor, documenting the decadent lifestyle of a group of young New York City artists and their social circle.

Some of Snow's later collage-based work was characterized by his practice of using his own semen as a material applied to or splashed across newspaper photographs of police officers and other authority figures.

Exhibitions and collections

Snow exhibited in galleries and museums such as the Royal Academy in London, the Whitney Museum of American Art's 2006 Bienniale, Peres Projects, Contemporary Fine Arts, Deitch Projects, Saatchi Gallery[11], "Babylon"[12] at the Pergamon Museum in Berlin, Palais de Tokyo in Paris, Bergen Kunsthall in Norway, Statens Museum for Kunst in Denmark, White House Biennial in Athens.[8] He is represented by Peres Projects in Berlin and Los Angeles, and Contemporary Fine Arts in Berlin. His works are held in the collections of Charles Saatchi, Anita Zabludowicz, and Dakis Joannou,[9] The Whitney Museum of American Art and the Brooklyn Museum.[10]

Personal life

At the age of 18, Snow married Corsican-born artist Agathe Snow.[4] They later split up and divorced. In July 2007, Dash's then-girlfriend, photo magazine editor Jade Berreau, gave birth to their daughter, whom they named Secret Midnight Magic Nico.

Death

Snow died on the evening of July 13, 2009, at Lafayette House, a hotel in lower Manhattan.[2] His grandmother Marie-Christophe de Menil was quoted as saying that he died of a drug overdose.[3] A New York Times article commented that Snow "met a junkie’s end but did so in a $325-a-night hotel room with an antique marble hearth."[11]

References

  1. 1 2 3 "Dash Snow - Telegraph". London: telegraph.co.uk. July 15, 2009. Retrieved 2009-07-16.
  2. 1 2 Roberta Smith, "Dash Snow, New York Artist, Dies at 27", New York Times, July 14, 2009.
  3. 1 2 Roberta Smith,"Dash Snow, East Village Artistic Rebel, Dies at 27", New York Times, July 15, 2009.
  4. 1 2 "Chasing Artist and Downtown Legend Dash Snow". New York Magazine. 2007-01-15. Retrieved 2010-05-25.
  5. 1 2 Sean O'Hagan, The last days of Dash Snow, The Observer, Sunday 20 September 2009.
  6. ↑ Micchelli, Thomas (2006-10-15). "Dash Snow". The Brooklyn Rail. Retrieved 2010-05-25.
  7. ↑ Crow, Kelly (2006-04-17). "The 23-Year Old Masters". Wall Street Journal. Retrieved 2009-07-09.
  8. ↑ White House Biennial, Artists, 2013
  9. ↑ Francesca Gavin, Dash Snow: An art icon for our times?, The Guardian, 2009-07-15
  10. ↑ Patrick Amsellem, Dash Snow, Brooklyn Museum, 2009-05-22
  11. ↑ Alan Feuer and Allen Salkin (July 24, 2009). "Terrible End for an Enfant Terrible". The New York Times. Retrieved 27 July 2009.

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