Dash Snow Remembered By New York

Just because someone has the means to subsume themselves into degeneracy doesn't mean they're an artist. I can get high on heroin and take a shit on Cindy Adam's Page Six face--as long as someone buys the product, I can be known as a genius artist.

Get clean, and sell high.

Have some respect for the fallen. Is it art or not? Who the fuck cares!!! The discussion of whether or not Graffiti is art is going to go on until the end of time. This man left behind a family and more friends than you will ever know. You are just upset no one is going to write an article about you when you die. Do you people want to know why? Because you are boring insignificant assholes. Buck owens I hope your entire family burns in Hell in front of you oh and your art sucks.

no idea what's going on here

As an artist myself, I can attest to the fact that I am not jealous in anyway, shape or form of his bedbug infested subsistence, the deplorable Polaroids, the filthy friends, and that grubby Allman Brothers look.

He was at best a poor man’s GG Allin through and through, the aforementioned statement of which is far wittier than any utterance that the now decomposing scrub Dash Snow ever made whilst alive.

Sorry but once someone actively chooses to be in the public media as an "artist" he's fair game for criticism, dead or alive. I wish his photos were great, but unfortunately they are not. I hope he had a good time before the heroin did him in.

and I sense a few of you are a bit jealous of his lifestyle

Word!

he undoubtedly has a far better Polaroid collection than you.

I feel badly about my previous comment. Surely his loved ones are experiencing tremendous loss, and it's insensitive to make light of anyone's passing. Also, as a drug addict, he may have been battling personal demons (hence the self-medication)...and that is not funny either.

My comment, really, was targeted toward the "downtown art scene" in general. Which defines pretense. So regardless of whether he was an 'artist' or a 'caricature,' he was arguably a 'product' of that scene.

Pretense, in extremis.

Nuff said...

Dash Snow: artist, or caricature? Discuss...

I did see a painting of his in a group show at Deitch Projects. It was OK. A giant pigeon poop painting. It was kinda clever.

But my hunch is Mr. Snow is more about 'being the artist', than actually creating the art.... sort of like Joaquin Phoenix now with his beard. What a joker.

But the drug thing and the body fluids... it's so late 80s - early 90s. He's about 20 years too late.

Exactly - it's largely been done before. Most of it is only of interest to an insular group of unschooled yes men.

Fascinating. 37 comments and I don't think I saw one compliment for his artwork. That's got to mean something.

Clearly he's an artistic genius.

Uh. Sorry for people's loss, but doesn't seem that he did contributed anything to the human species.

Art?

Let me take a picture of my vomit after nachos and a bottle of tequila. I'll bet you would hang it in the middle of your living room.

I guess it is a myth that black dicks are bigger :)

It was shrinking in anticipation...

I was looking for an honest summation of the senseless tragedy here and I could only find this via gawker:

07/14/09

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I didn't know Dash, but I know the scene he hung out in and I know the type of people, and actually know some of the people he hung out with. What sucks is that these super-cool people can do nothing but give each other endless handjobs. Everything and everyone is always great. It's all cool. It's all good. The worst thing you can do in these circles of "friends" is to interject a little criticism or point out that someone is fucking up... if you do you are shunned. So here's to all Dashes friends that didn't have the guts to tell him he was fucking his life away on junk! "

In sum, if there is anything to learn from this is that being a good friend is speaking up when your friend is out of control...and it doesn't seem like Dash had that many good friends.

I know you can't save people from themselves, but you can say something.

Well said.

I think that also goes a long way in explaining why hipsters wear such ridiculous clothes.

You know how I know you're gay? You jerked off onto a picture of Saddam Hussein.

I can't figure out where the greatness, let alone art comes in - he has long hair, a bold tattoo, but jizz on the newspapers is a chuckle, the poloroids are nothing special...so you do drugs and have sex with people and take pictures of it...does that make you an artist?

Its hard to think that those pictures and say this can both be called 'art' -

http://www.tiogaadventures.com/l37-SisteneChapel.jpg

I'm a big fan of the Sistine Ceiling, but comparing it to contemporary art is apples and oranges.

Let's take a cue from Gawker and instead compare the above work to Basquiat:

http://www.brooklynmuseum.org/exhibitions/basquiat/images/basquiat_in_italian_542.jpg

This painting is 25 years old but still seems less dated than the faded, nostalgic hedonism flaunted by Snow.

I find it ghoulish that so many people find the urge here to pile on when someone has just died. It must be upsetting for this guy's friends and family to read the judgements of complete strangers on his personal life.

But at the same time I DO think it's fair to reflect on his art, which does not seem to live up to his larger-than-life personality. I also think it's ridiculous to portray the work or the man as somehow "outsider".

Anyway, sorry to see someone succumbing to such an awful end.

I compare it cause if you apply the title of artist to someone I expect to see work with ambition like that - produce something if you're going to call yourself an artist -

This guy lived in the LES and went to a lot of parties - I dont see the art - I get the sense that basquait made work. He produced. I like the pic you posted - its has a pleasing aesthetic to it.

This guy I dont see it. After the New York article he just seemed like such a prick - fcking up hotel rooms - kicking in windows - pointless vandalism - all made worse cause he was from the elite class and because he was being a celebrated for being an artist for it -

if some schmoo from staten island did exactly what he did we'd all agree he was just a douche bag, but because he's from the upper class - its art. Its just tacky - with his final chapter being his friend twittering that he's a turd when he died. tacky. maybe that was the point of his art. in which case he succeeded, but what was worth it?

Why is it ghoulish? This guy and his pals live(d) for notoriety. I'm sure most people feel sorry for his relatives and especially his little kid. But pointing out the obvious shouldn't be considered piling on.

I guess also the fact that he didn't have a cell phone made him...edgy..?

I've got a lot of 'artist' socks for sale if that post is art.

"if you dont have anything nice to say maybe you shouldnt say anything at all"

apparently on the internet people prefer the opposite. especially towards anyone who was an artist/outside of the norm. maybe you guys should get your news from ny1 or ny post or maybe even cnn.. those sources are generally "hipster"-free

Thanks for the tip-will NY1 be hosting the memorial service?

pic#8: "Untitled (Gotcha!), 2008. Collage: Newspaper, artist's semen, glitter." semen? art?

anyway, this guy, for all the friends he had, is not newsworthy. he's like the paris hilton of the lower east side, big deal. i'm sad that Nick and Norah will no longer have someone to party with, but really, get over it. and it really is sad if people move to this city to find characters like this dirtbag.

Okie dokie...

I have no idea who this person is...could the nice people here please inform as to who this person was, what was his contribution to New York and why should I miss him now that he is gone?

I apologize if I come across cold, of course my condolences and prayers go out to his family.

But that semen ont he newspaper thing...? Not art..

Warhol's ghost packed its bags and left, probably at exactly the same time this miscreant rolled into town.

Not true. I saw Warhol's ghost like three days ago ordering a Gyro on 14th street. He looked good.

Just a clarification:

he was not listed in the times as being survived by "all of manhattan" as his family/relations although that is quite romantic. All of his surviving relatives are from/ live in manhattan

and why are you all making comments about what is/isn't art? who cares at least he was creating something. so much negativity.

Oh please, who don't you know in NY that is creating something? The city is full of artists, musicians, etc, who toil away in obscurity, are authentic, and deserve recognition but never get it. The question is why is this guy getting so much attention. He's a trust fund baby, who had the luxury of doing nothing other than partying and making his "art". He also gained attention through family connections. Sorry, not much there to respect or care about.

Ejaculating on a newspaper is not being creative. The bottom of a litter pan is far more inspired than this poor soul's glittered encrusted spooge...

Ok thank you Bye Bye.

WTF? This loser was in no way shape or form an artist. Just another waste of space good riddance.

Your mom should have swallowed the load that had you in it you waste of skin.

"They conclude with a list of relatives he will be survived by, including 'all of Manhattan.'"

I believe the Times means that all of the surviving relatives listed are residents of Manhattan, which is not quite as dramatic.

what a great gaffe - enjoy it before it disappears!

gone!

I would venture to say that picture 4 isn't very SFW either.

So a spoiled rich kid that thinks they're an artist dropped dead from too much herion and people actually think the masses will be sad?

No way, I say good riddance, being a spoiled brat that uses drugs doesn't make you an artist or an icon or anything more than a degenerate punk that needs a good kick in the a$$.

oh good, more pictures of crappy graffiti, courtesy of jake dobkin. what a surprise.

i've seen elephants create more thought provoking art than this moron.

he was somebody's friend, so the pain of losing him is real, no doubt. but this chap's "art" is whack. body fluids are truly the creative fodder of yesteryear and the rest of it is so contrived to be edgy and cynical that it's banal. also, the basquiat reference is an insult to a true and prolific creative, the only connection is that they died in a most foolish manner.

Stupid hippie hair? Check.

Stupid hippie beard? Check.

Stupid aviator sunglasses? Check.

Bad tattoos? Check.

Mediocre photos posing as art? Check.

Sycophantic friends too lame to do anything themselves? Check.

Yep, that's why people move to New York, Mr. Vice magazine.

Idiot.

That 5th pic is rather NSFW, especially if you work at the KKK or the Aryan Nation or something.

He was the kind of thing people move to New York for Well, he's dead now-party's over. Go back to where you came from

Yeah, that's a terribly obnoxious quote.

I'm sorry, but this man is not an artist.

A free spirit at best. To categorize him as an artist is really doing true artists disrespect.

Condolences to his family. He was messed up.

Thank the gods this degenerate is dead... Condolences to the family but srsly, just a waste of a person. Any association to Art here is only made by the emotionally medicated and mentally comatose.

I can't wait for the day you die so no one can care at all you lonely sack of chicken shit.

Terrible photos are terrible.

true The Edge is true.

No disrespect to the dead, but "Basquiat-esque"?

Thanks for posting the images.

Just "A kid who's family includes a brother named Maxwell who dated an Olsen twin and a mother who has charged the highest rent ever for a Hamptons home ($750,000 a season.)"