Sprint Snow rejected a lifetime of privilege to make his personal manner as an artist on the streets of downtown New York Metropolis within the late Nineties. Growing from a infamous graffiti tagger into a world artwork star, he documented his drug- and alcohol-fueled nights with the surrogate household he shaped with mates and fellow artists Ryan McGinley and Dan Colen earlier than his dying by heroin overdose in 2009. Drawing from Snow’s unforgettable physique of labor and involving archival footage, Cheryl Dunn’s distinctive portrait captures his all-too-brief lifetime of reckless extra and creativity.
