Dash Snow (1981–2009)

Readers of this book will not lack for images of penises (soft and hard), drug paraphernalia, naked old men, naked young women or melancholic landscapes. Featuring a variety of well chosen papers and several special inserted elements--like a bound-in, folded flyer reading, "YOUNG PERFORMERS/ TRANSEXUALS NEEDED For film by DASH SNOW (Private Location), $50hr, party favors included, Must be willing to take it off, Take IT FAR"--God Spoiled a Perfect Asshole When He Put Teeth in Yer Mouth is show more titled after Snow's recent one-person exhibition at Peres Projects, Los Angeles. This riveting and highly collectible exhibition catalogue contains full-color illustrations of Snow's Dada-esque, playful and often nasty collage works and his photographs of Lower East Side "counter-counter-culture." It begins and ends with production stills from Snow's 2007 video, "Untitled (Penis Envy)." show less

A classic Dash Snow artist book combining images of nudity, delinquency, disaffection, minor gore, newspaper clippings, and other cultural flotsam.
Slime the Boogie was issued to accompany ‘God Spoiled a Perfect Asshole When He Put Teeth in Yer Mouth,’ Snow’s first solo Los Angeles show at Peres Projects in 2007. It comprises juxtapositions of photographs of his friends with images and text from newspaper and magazine clippings and other ephemera.

‘When William S. Burroughs drug-soaked show more stream of consciousness first hit, its radical, inspired literary rhythms genuinely represented the counter-cultural mores of a vital new underground. Best known for his insider photographic record, alternately poetic and gross, Dash Snow captures a crude reality of thriving lower east side subculture emblematic of such Burroughs-esque dissidence. Yet in the endless and official shit-storm of backlashes and counter-counter-cultural ascendancy, Snow’s recorded moments offer a perspective unfazed’ (Peres Projects).

Neumüller, M and González, Á. L., Martin Parr’s Best Books of the Decade pp.32-3, 80; Parr and Badger, The Photobook: A History vol. III p.100. show less

“Loves roses” are glass tubes, 3/8 inches in diameter, 4 inches long. Covered on one end with foil, each contains a cloth flower: red, yellow, blue, violet, white or green. They are duplicitous objects. If you ask one kind of person, they’ll tell you these “stems” are romantic offerings, valentine’s gifts. If you ask another kind of person, they’ll tell you these are pipes for smoking crack cocaine. In September 2008 at a palazzo gallery in Brescia, Italy, Dan Colen and Nate show more Lowman installed the third incarnation of an evolving body of collaborative work. A long-envisioned but, until Italy, unrealized plan for a sculpture had been a “beaded” curtain made of “love roses” (and titled the same). The curtain was hung in a doorway leading into the ornate spaces housing the rest of their show. Dash snow arrived in Brescia when Colen and Lowman were finishing their installation. A close friend of the collaborators, snow had documented their shared process since its i show less

Unpaginated. scarce artist’s book by cult figure and downtown provocateur Dash Snow, issued to accompany his acclaimed show “The End of Living… The Beginning of Survival at Contemporary Fine Arts in Berlin. Snow is known for his raw documentation of street life, graffiti, drugs, sex, and subcultural identity, all of which are captured in this zine reflecting the gritty immediacy of early-2000s New York counterculture.