Cathouse FUNeral

After a stimulating and very productive weekend at the Outsider Art Fair we open Daniel Swanigan Snow: Sober Don’t Make Art, in the gallery featuring large-scale sculpture and assemblage, Saturday, January 30, 7-10 pm through March 13.

Sober Don’t Make Art debuts Daniel Swanigan Snow and his sometimes electric, but always eclectic, sculptural assemblage. Daniel Swanigan Snow was born in Pittsburgh, PA in 1951. He moved to New York City in the distant, dark days of the 1970’s to pursue acting, finding himself performing primarily in B-movies and Shakespeare, most famously as “Cigar Face” in Lloyd Kaufman’s 80’s cult film classic, The Toxic Avenger. Cathouse FUNeral founding director, David Dixon, who also makes movies, first encountered Mr. Snow as an actor, quickly casting the distinctive Dan Snow in four different roles in only two films. In addition to transforming through character, Mr. Snow feverishly began transforming objects into art ten years ago at the age of 54.

Daniel Swanigan Snow’s sculptural assemblage effortlessly evokes the psychologically distraught world of later Isa Genzken and other art world insiders like Kienholz, H.C. Westermann and/or the combines of Robert Rauschenberg. Despite coming to art late, or perhaps because of it, Mr. Snow’s work is created with all the jouissance of a youthful insouciance. Cathouse FUNeral will feature large-scale works produced in Snow’s backyard in Bensonhurst, as well as electrically charged assemblage from his basement. Expect to see a vigorous, transformative material engagement, darkly lit, assembled with sharp social critique and whimsy.