Dash Snow

Dash Snow (born 1981, New York-July 13, 2009) is an artist based in New York City best known for his sculptural installations, collages, and photographs.

Snow has exhibited in galleries and museums such as The Royal Academy in London, the Whitney Museum of American Art's 2006 Biennial "Day For Night", Deitch Projects, Saatchi Gallery and Nicole Klagsbrun Gallery in New York. He is represented by Rivington Arms Gallery in New York.

Snow is the great-grandson of Dominique de Menil, and his mother, Taya Snow, is the daughter of Robert Thurman (and the half-sister of actress Uma Thurman). Snow ran away from home and began living on the streets at 13 or 14, and began taking photographs, he says, as a record of places he might not remember the next day.

Snow's photographic work is in a thematically similar mode to photographers Nan Goldin, Larry Clark, Ryan McGinley and Richard Billingham, often depicting scenes of a candid or illicit nature. Instances of sex, drug taking, violence and art-world pretentiousness are documented with disarming frankness and honesty, offering insight into the decadent lifestyle increasingly associated with young New York City artists and their social circles.

Some of Snow's recent collage-based work has been characterized by the nominally controversial practice of using his own semen as a material applied to or splashed across newspaper photographs of police officers and other authority figures. However, the suggestive nature of such works has not prevented them from being acquired by influential collectors such as Charles Saatchi.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dash_Snow
http://www.saatchi-gallery.co.uk/artists/dash_snow.htm

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[95civex]

people who know nothing about the graffiti lifestyle.... do us all a favor and keep your stupid ass comments to yourself.

[drenchedbrain]

debatable. people did love this kid though,

[worthlessburger7]

@kashae88 Watch the whole video, it's at the end. Tricky - Overcome

[allrealhiphop5150kid]

@JLOZANO2 DISCRACE TO MY LAST NAME.! LOZANO'S ARE KNOWN TO LOVE ART.! NOT TO CRITISIZE IT CUZ ITS NOT YOUR AVERAGE EVERY DAY PHOTO.!

[kashae88]

what is this song called plzzzzz

[SFTOWA]

r.i.p dash snow

[SFTOWA]

its not mediocre, its not retarded, its not hipster art, its not meaningless. you actually could fling your snot on canvas and meaning be priceless. perhaps you people talking down on a dead man are the ignorant ones. you arent taking his composition, balance, hardships, memories, meanings, etc. into consideration.

[bentcoin1]

i am not a huge fan of dashes work but i have to respect all he went thru to create it esp.the polaroids which were a depiction of his life and struggles aswell as highs and lows, and it demonstrated pure openness to the world by publicly displaying them, i am a fan of his graffiti guy got up a lot so two go from two extremes of art and be good at them i think is an accomplishment, its sad he died so young, but i think people bashing him via youtube should grow up hes dead an cnt defend him self

[GetBuckSwayze]

Basquiat was a fuckin pussy. Nigga doesnt have one burner still riding, Sacer got a shitload, so dont think for a second that Basquiat is getting the short end of the stick on that comparison. Sace beasted way too fucking hard to have his memory sullied by that cunt.

[scarekat]

shut the fuck up

[kdflit]

whats up with 1:39

[chyo1]

Ha ha, man I love the dash snow haters talking about how he is a mediocre artist, not even knowing he was one of the top graffiti artists in New York. He could bomb all city and could paint pieces pretty damn good (especially the last pieces he did).

Stop with the basquiat comparisons, basquiat never proved that he could paint at all, dash snow (aka SACE IRAK) has time and time again.