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Dash Snow

{{Short description|American artist (1981–2009)}}

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| birth_name = Dashiell A. Snow

| birth_date = {{Birth date|1981|7|27}}

| birth_place = New York City, U.S.

| death_date = {{Death date and age|2009|7|13|1981|7|27}}

| death_place = New York City, U.S.

| field = {{ubl|Photography|Collage|Installation|Graffiti}}

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| spouse = {{marriage|Agathe Aparru|2000|end=div}}

| relatives = Robert Thurman (maternal grandfather)
Nena von Schlebrügge (maternal grandmother)
Uma Thurman (aunt)
Maya Hawke (cousin)

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Dashiell A. Snow (July 27, 1981 – July 13, 2009) was an American artist based in New York City.Roberta Smith, [http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/07/14/dash-snow-new-york-artist-dies-at-27/ "Dash Snow, New York Artist, Dies at 27"], The New York Times, July 14, 2009. Snow's photographs included scenes of sex, drugs, violence, and the art world; his work often depicted the decadent lifestyle of young New York City artists and their social circle.{{Cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2009/jul/15/dash-snow-art-icon|title=Dash Snow: An art icon for our times?|last=Gavin|first=Francesca|date=July 15, 2009|work=The Guardian|access-date=November 25, 2017|language=en-GB|issn=0261-3077}}

Early life and education

Dashiell A. Snow was born July 27, 1981, to Taya Thurman and Christopher Snow. He grew up on the Upper West Side in New York City.{{Cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/26/nyregion/26dash.html|title=Terrible End for an Enfant Terrible|last1=Feuer|first1=Alan|date=July 24, 2009|work=The New York Times|access-date=November 25, 2017|last2=Salkin|first2=Allen|issn=0362-4331}} Snow and his siblings, Maxwell and Caroline, are descendants of the de Menil family, who are known for their philanthropy and collection of American art.

At thirteen, he was sent to Hidden Lake Academy, a therapeutic boarding school specializing in the treatment of children with oppositional defiant disorder.

{{cite news |date=July 15, 2009 |title=Dash Snow - Telegraph |publisher=telegraph.co.uk |location=London |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/culture-obituaries/art-obituaries/5837056/Dash-Snow.html |access-date=July 16, 2009}}Sean O'Hagan, [https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2009/sep/20/dash-snow-new-york-artist The last days of Dash Snow], The Observer, September 20, 2009.

Career

As a teenager, Snow began taking photographs to document the places he might not remember the next day.{{cite web|last=Micchelli |first=Thomas |url=http://www.brooklynrail.org/2006/10/artseen/dash-snow |title=Dash Snow |publisher=The Brooklyn Rail |date=October 15, 2006 |access-date=May 25, 2010}} In the 1990s, he was a member of the IRAK graffiti crew; the name of the group was meant to reference shoplifting, or otherwise called, racking.{{Cite web |date=2021-08-30 |title=The Untold Story of Downtown New York's Most Legendary Graffiti Crew |url=https://www.gq.com/story/irak-legendary-new-york-graffiti-crew |access-date=2022-03-07 |website=GQ |language=en-US}} In order to sign his work, Snow used the tag "SACE" or "SACER".

His first solo photography exhibition took place in 2005.

In 2006, The Wall Street Journal profiled Snow and nine other emerging American artists, including Rosson Crow, Ryan Trecartin, Zane Lewis, Barney Kulok, Jordan Wolfson, and Keegan McHargue.{{cite web|url=http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/06107/682265-42.stm|title=The 23-Year Old Masters|access-date=July 9, 2009|date=April 17, 2006|author=Crow, Kelly|work=Wall Street Journal}} The same year he was included in the Whitney Biennial.

In 2007, Snow and Dan Colen co-created an installation of shredded phone books in Jeffrey Deitch's SoHo gallery; the exhibit was named “Nest” or “Hamster Nest”.{{Cite news|url=https://www.interviewmagazine.com/art/dan-colen|title=Dan Colen - Interview Magazine|date=August 17, 2010|work=Interview Magazine|access-date=November 25, 2017}}

In his later collage-based work, Snow used his semen as a material applied to or splashed across newspaper photographs of police officers and/or other authority figures.

Family and personal life

Snow's parents were Christopher Snow and Taya Thurman. His maternal grandparents were Buddhist scholar Robert Thurman, the father of actress Uma Thurman, and his first wife artist Marie-Christophe de Menil.{{Cite news|url=https://www.wmagazine.com/story/christophe-de-menil|title=Christophe de Menil: Blithe Spirit|last=Thompson|first=Haven|work=W Magazine|access-date=November 25, 2017|language=en}} He was the great-grandson of John de Menil and Dominique de Menil, the founders of the Menil Collection and Museum located in Houston, Texas.{{cite web|url=http://nymag.com/arts/art/profiles/26288/index1.html |title=Chasing Artist and Downtown Legend Dash Snow |publisher=New York Magazine |date=January 15, 2007 |access-date=May 25, 2010}} Dominique was heiress to the Schlumberger Limited oil-equipment fortune.

At the age of 18, Snow married Corsican artist Agathe Aparru Snow; the couple later divorced.{{Cite news |last=Smith |first=Roberta |date=2009-07-15 |title=Dash Snow, East Village Artistic Rebel, Dies at 27 |language=en-US |work=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/15/arts/15snow.html |access-date=2022-03-07 |issn=0362-4331}}

In July 2007, his partner, Jade Berreau, gave birth to the couple's daughter, Secret Midnight Magic Nico.

Death and legacy

On July 13, 2009, Snow died of a drug overdose while a guest of Lafayette House in New York City. He was 27 years old.Roberta Smith,[https://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/15/arts/15snow.html?scp=3&sq=Dash%20Snow&st=cse "Dash Snow, East Village Artistic Rebel, Dies at 27"], The New York Times, July 15, 2009.

In 2016, his family sued McDonald's after they refused to remove the tag "SACE" from the graffiti-themed interior design used in some European and Asian restaurants; the case was later dismissed.{{Cite news |date=October 5, 2016 |title=Dash Snow's Estate Sues McDonald's for Copyright Infringement |work=Hyperallergic |url=https://hyperallergic.com/327789/dash-snows-estate-sues-mcdonalds-copyright-infringement/ |access-date=November 25, 2017}}{{Cite web |last=Sullivan & Worcester LLP - Nicholas O'Donnell |date=2017-04-26 |title=McDonald's Beats Graffiti Copyright Claims in California, But Faces New Threat over New York Street Art |url=https://www.lexology.com/library/detail.aspx?g=35d31f40-122c-436e-b65e-e439ec7005b2 |access-date=2022-03-07 |website=Lexology |language=en}}

A documentary film about Snow, Moments Like This Never Last, was released in 2020.{{cite web|first1=Alex|last1=Greenberger|access-date=2021-11-09|title=Dash Snow Documentary Fails to Contend with the Artist's Carefully Constructed Persona|url=https://www.artnews.com/art-news/artists/dash-snow-moments-like-this-never-last-review-1234601985/|date=20 August 2021}}

Publications

  • Slime The Boogie. Berlin/Los Angeles: Peres Projects, 2007.
  • Gang bang at ground zero. New York City: self-published, 2007. Zine. Produced in collaboration with Christopher Snow.
  • You Can't Drink It If It's Frozen: the Dash Snow Purple Book. 2007. Olivier Zahm, Purple Fashion Magazine, and Janvier, 2007.
  • The End of Living, the Beginning of Survival. Berlin: Contemporary Fine Arts, 2007. {{ISBN|978-3931355425}}.
  • I'd rather drink muddy water, and sleep in a hollow log. Self-published / Contemporary Fine Arts Berlin, 2007. {{OCLC|935823668}}. Includes "Skeletal love" by Raina Hammer.
  • God Spoiled a Perfect Asshole When He Put Teeth in Yer Mouth. Berlin/Los Angeles: Peres Projects Holdings, 2007. {{ISBN|978-0977881994}}. Published on the occasion of an exhibition at Peres Projects, Los Angeles.
  • Nest. New York City: Deitch Projects, 2008. With Dan Colen. {{ISBN|978-0977868698}}. Published on the occasion of an exhibition at Deitch Projects, New York City, 2007.
  • In the Softest Grey Petals of the Bomb, Lay Your Finger Across my Lips. Los Angeles: Peres Projects, 2009. {{OCLC|549611230}}.
  • Polaroids. Berlin/Los Angeles: Peres Projects, 2009. {{ISBN|978-0981765846}}.
  • I love you, stupid!. New York City: D.A.P., 2012. {{ISBN|9781938922145}}. Cologne: Walther König, 2013. {{ISBN|9783863352646}}.
  • Love Roses. New York City: Karma, 2015. {{ISBN|9780983730736}}.
  • Selected Works From 2001 To 2009. Zurich: Nieves; Geneva: Innen, 2014.
  • Second edition. Zurich: Nieves; Geneva: Innen, 2020. {{OCLC|1220901922}}.

Exhibitions

=Solo exhibitions=

  • Silence is the only true friend that shall never betray you, Rivington Arms, New York City, 2006. Collages.{{cite web|access-date=2021-12-08|title=Dash Snow at Rivington Arms|url=https://www.artforum.com/picks/dash-snow-11837|website=www.artforum.com|date=October 3, 2006 }}{{cite news|first1=Holland|last1=Cotter|access-date=2021-12-08|title=Art in Review; Dash Snow|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2006/10/13/arts/art-in-review-dash-snow.html|newspaper=The New York Times|date=13 October 2006|issn=0362-4331}}
  • Rivington Arms, New York City, 2006. Found materials, collages, sculptures and assemblages.{{cite web|access-date=2021-12-08|title=Michael Wilson on Dash Snow|url=https://www.artforum.com/print/reviews/200609/dash-snow-43065|website=www.artforum.com|date=November 2006 }}

=Group exhibitions=

  • USA Today, Royal Academy, London, 2006
  • Whitney Biennial, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York City, 2006
  • Babylon: Myth and Truth, Pergamon Museum, Berlin, 2008. Included collages by Snow.{{Cite news|url=https://www.artforum.com/picks/id=20954|title="Babylon: Myth and Truth" at Pergamon Museum|last=Merjian|first=Ara H.|date=2008|work=Artforum.com|access-date=November 25, 2017}}
  • Exercises on Democracy, a traveling exhibition, White House Biennial, Athens, Greece, 2013–{{Cite web|url=https://www.opencase303.com/whb|title=WHB|date=2013|website=open-case-303|language=en|access-date=August 23, 2018}}{{Cite web|url=http://www.whitehousebiennial.com/exhibitions|title=Exhibitions|date=2013|website=White House Biennial|access-date=November 25, 2017}}
  • Materialized: New Ameriacn Video and..., Bergen Kunsthall, Norway, 2008. Included Hamsters Nest by Snow. Curated by Kathy Grayson.{{cite web|access-date=2021-12-08|title=Materialized: New Ameriacn Video and...|url=http://www.kunsthall.no/en/default.asp?k=1&id=27&aid=246&ark=1&aar=2008&arrtID=6&ArrLokID=0&index=10|website=Bergen Kunsthall}}
  • Photographs. The Royal Collection of Graphic Arts, National Gallery of Denmark, Denmark, 2010{{cite web|access-date=2021-12-08|title=Exhibitions 2010|url=https://www.smk.dk/en/exhibition/2010/|date=15 October 2010|website=SMK – National Gallery of Denmark in Copenhagen (Statens Museum for Kunst)}}

Collections

Snow's work is held in the following public collections:

  • Whitney Museum of American Art, New York City[http://whitney.org/Collection/AllArtists?name=S "All artists in the collection: As of October 2015"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160317214317/http://whitney.org/Collection/AllArtists?name=S |date=March 17, 2016 }}, Whitney Museum of American Art.
  • Brooklyn Museum, New York CityPatrick Amsellem, [http://www.brooklynmuseum.org/community/blogosphere/bloggers/2009/05/22/dash-snow Dash Snow], Brooklyn Museum, May 22, 2009.
  • The Watermill CenterAlexandra Peers, "[http://www.vulture.com/2009/07/dash_snow_piece_pulled_from_au.html Dash Snow Piece Pulled From Auction]", Vulture.com, July 17, 2009. Accessed December 7, 2017."[http://www.blouinartinfo.com/contemporary-arts/article/32067-dash-snow-piece-wont-go-to-bid Piece Wont Go to Bid]", Blouinartinfo, July 20, 2009. Accessed December 7, 2017.

See also

References

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External links

  • [http://www.interviewmagazine.com/art/dash-snow/ Dash Snow Interview in Interview magazine]
  • Denis Kovalev, [http://sgustok.org/art/dash-snow "Dash Snow"], Sgustok Magazine, 2010
  • [https://web.archive.org/web/20081121191321/http://www.peresprojects.com/artist-works/dash-snow/0/ Peres Projects, Berlin Los Angeles]
  • [http://vimeo.com/5616911 Dash Snow Appearing in Graf Core 2000]

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