Snow with Ryan McGinley and Dan Colen - Picture by Cass Bird
I had a nice morning reading the latest issue of Purple Fashion and drinking tea today - my favourite discovery was photographer and artist Dash Snow. I'd not heard of him before and I do like. Here's some of his work - he uses Polaroid a lot, which is probably what sold me - that and his twisted sense of humour. He's based in New York, and the New York Magazine describes him thus:
"At 25, he is a growing downtown legend, a graffiti writer turned artist with a beautiful face and a De Menil pedigree, elusive even to the two friends who created his myth."
The rest of the article is worth reading, you can find it here. Although on further reading he starts to sound a bit hyped for my liking, I'm curious.
"At at their best, his collages have a special, specific feel; as if Snow pulled the papers and backgrounds out of a flophouse on Haight Street in 1969 and has somehow magically updated the headlines. His compositions invoke a world you’ve seen pieces of but never all together."
