NY Artist Dash Snow dead from drug overdose

Albeit sad news, thanks goes to Jill Weiskopf (Communications Coordinator for New York magazine), for getting this news out quickly:

Today, hard-living, police-dodging artist, photographer, and graffiti writer Dash Snow has passed away at 27.

In 2007, New York contributing editor Ariel Levy wrote a feature on the downtown legend and the myth around him…

"I guess I get obsessed with people, and I really became fascinated by Dash," says [photographer] McGinley, who shares a Chinatown loft a few blocks away from Snow’s apartment with Dan Colen, whom McGinley has known since they were teenage skateboarders in New Jersey. The apartment used to be a brothel; for a long time, Chinese men would come to the door and be disappointed when McGinley or Colen answered it. McGinley shows me his photos of Snow over the years, dozens and dozens of them. Snow with cornrows, with a shaved head, with a black eye. There is one photo called Dash Bombing [pictured below] that was in the Whitney show: a shadowy shot of Snow out on a ledge, tagging a building in the night sky, Manhattan spread out below him. It’s an image of anarchic freedom, one that seems anachronistic and almost magical in this city of hermetically sealed glass-cocoon condo towers. It’s as if Snow were an animal—prevalent in the seventies, now thought to be extinct—that was spotted high over the city.

Read more about Snow and his short but extraordinary career here.

Comments

[Sri]

Very sad and depressing in every way right down to the baby left fatherless. There are things money can't fix. Dash Snow sported an annoying hipper-than-thou art-world persona, but his artistic talent was undeniable.Unfortunately, he was not only a brilliant artist but a drug addict as well. My condolences to his family, friends and Secret. No hope in dope. If anyone is interested I started collecting all the information or sites related to Dash Snow. check out the below link to know all about Dash Snow (around 200 sites) http://markthispage.blogspot.com/2009/07/200-sites-to-know-about-dash-snow.html