{"id":1792,"date":"2009-07-14T10:40:29","date_gmt":"2009-07-14T17:40:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/2009\/07\/dash-snow-gone\/"},"modified":"2009-07-14T20:25:03","modified_gmt":"2009-07-15T03:25:03","slug":"dash-snow-gone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2009\/07\/14\/dash-snow-gone\/","title":{"rendered":"Dash Snow Gone"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Dash Snow, Downtown Artist, Said to Be Dead of Overdose<\/a>\u00a0<\/span><\/h1>\n

By\u00a0Hamilton Nolan<\/a><\/cite>,\u00a011:10 AM<\/a>\u00a0on Tue Jul 14 2009, 16,125 views<\/p>\n

Multiple sources tell us that\u00a0Dash Snow<\/a>\u2014 photographer<\/a>,\u00a0semen artist<\/a>, graffiti writer, and embodiment of the downtown NYC scene<\/a>\u2014has apparently died of a heroin overdose, two years shy of his 30th birthday.<\/p>\n

<\/a>We got a tip this morning that Dash had overdosed last night. Earsnot, a.k.a. Kunle Irak, a fellow downtown artist and one of Dash’s best friends<\/p>\n

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A separate source close to Dash confirmed to us this morning through an intermediary that Dash has died. It’s already\u00a0popping up on Twitter<\/a>, as well. We’ll let you know more details as we learn them. (Snow’s gallery, Peres Projects in Berlin, isn’t releasing a comment).<\/p>\n

Dash Snow<\/a>\u00a0was most memorably\u00a0profiled by Ariel Levy in New York magazine two years ago<\/a>. He and his friends came up in the downtown graffiti scene, and branched out to find success in the art world, without ever losing their bizarre, drug-addled edge.<\/p>\n

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What makes the legend richer is that Dash Snow could very easily have lived a different kind of life, been a different kind of artist. Snow’s maternal grandmother is a De Menil, which is to say art-world royalty, the closest thing to the Medicis in the United States. His mother made headlines a few years ago for charging what was then the highest rent ever asked on a house in the Hamptons: $750,000 a season. And his brother, Maxwell Snow, is a budding member of New York society who has dated Mary-Kate Olsen. But Snow has concocted something else for himself. He has been living as hard as a person can-in and out of jail, doing drugs, running from the police-for a decade. He’s unschooled, self-taught.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

The\u00a0Irak crew,<\/a>\u00a0which Dash helped found, is now world famous. You can still see\u00a0his “SACER” tags<\/a>\u00a0around the city.<\/p>\n

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from Gawker Dash Snow, Downtown Artist, Said to Be Dead of Overdose\u00a0 By\u00a0Hamilton Nolan,\u00a011:10 AM\u00a0on Tue Jul 14 2009, 16,125 views Multiple sources tell us that\u00a0Dash Snow\u2014 photographer,\u00a0semen artist, graffiti writer, and embodiment of the downtown NYC scene\u2014has apparently died of a heroin overdose, two years shy of his 30th birthday. We got a tip […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1792","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-art"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1792","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1792"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1792\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1792"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1792"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1792"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}