Underground New York City artist and semen enthusiast Dash Snow was reportedly found dead of a heroin overdose last night, allowing him to finaly join the famed "27 Club." “The growing downtown legend” was often mentioned in the same beer-battered breath as Dan Colen, who thoughtfully hung a tallis from his own raging hard-on in a piece featured at the 2006 Whitney Biennial. Two years ago, Ariel Levy profiled the elusive Snow in an 11-page spread in New York Magazine.

“There is one photo called Dash Bombing 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.”

He will be missed, his smell will not.

Our sympathies go out to Dash’s ex-wife and Heeb 100 alum, Agathe Snow.

Check out Complex for a look back at the artist’s best work

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