AGATHE SNOW

Agathe Snow left Corsica to live in NYC and stayed for many years. She left NYC in 2008 for Mattituck NY, (on the North Fork of Long Island) where she now lives and works.
She has shown at the Brant Foundation, Greenwich, CT; New Museum, NYC; the Whitney Museum NYC and the Guggenheim NYC. Snow has achieved global recognition, exhibiting at prestigious institutions, such as Deutsche Guggenheim, Berlin; Jeu de Paume, Paris; and Palais de Tokyo. Snow’s work is included in the permanent collection of the Guggenheim, NYC; the Charles Saatchi Collection, London, UK; the Zabludowitz Collection; to
name a few.
From August until Christmas, 2023, she has an exhibition at WILLOUGHBY, in Southold, NY, close to the home she shares with her husband and son.

Agathe works in a variety of media and has collaborated with artists including Rita Ackerman, Marianne Vitale, Randy Polumbo and Michael Portney.
During her 2007 show No Need To Worry, The Apocalypse Has Already Happened... at James Fuentes Gallery, Snow used a flooded NYC (Hurricane Sandy) as a starting point to create an installation and performance that spanned five weeks, including a sculpture of a beached whale belly.

A 24-hour dance party Agathe staged in 2005 brought together artists from New York's downtown scene including Hannah Liden, Ryan McKinley, Dash Snow and Dan Colen, among others.  “I invited all of my friends,” Snow told Interview Magazine in 2015.
“It was a sense of New York City after 9/11—we don’t know what’s going to happen, we’re all downtown in Manhattan, we might as well have fun.”
The original event was commemorated ten years later by Snow, who held a 24-hour party at the Guggenheim titled Stamina, which featured video footage from the 2005 party, which she edited into a 24-hour-long video that premiered in real-time during the event.
A dance-a-thon called Stamina: Gloria Et Patria was Snow's entry to the Whitney Biennial, held at the Park Avenue Armory from March 9 to 16.

In 2019, Agathe collaborated with Marianne Vitale on Double Vision at the Elaine De Kooning House in East Hampton NY. They held a series of dinner parties, for 3 nights, celebrating their work and residency. Her mother, Martine Abitbol who is a French chef, along with a local fisherman, cooked for their many guests.

An excerpt from her 2015 Interview Magazine article by Rachel Small:
“Be resourceful, have heart, and curiosity. We always move forward, no matter what. Everyone moves here for reason.
You need a reason to leave everything behind.
What is in human nature that makes you able to drop it all and start again? And, it continues so your next of kin will have a better life than you. We’re not just here for ourselves. To the broader scheme of things, we are all connected. I think that realization was why I wanted to do the show at Journal with the totems. It’s not just you; it’s also the 12 people that came before you, and the 12 people that come after you. And you go back 1,000 and you go back 2,000…you know, we’re all connected. I think that’s what I wanted to say in the show, and that’s what the immigration show also came to make clear.”
~Agathe Snow 2015

Snow is currently on view at WILLOUGHBY with an exhibit, Strange Attractors, A Chaotic Bloom, with fellow artist Randy Polumbo.
Her work is made entirely of wild mushrooms from her Mattituck farm - mushroom skins, she’s crafted for months along with tattoo ink, white acrylic paint, psilocybin spores for shading, collage of personal drawings and photos.

In her words:
I first met Randy at his Lighthouse, a magic mushroom of his own creation, on the Long Island Sound. I handed him a bag of shiitakes. Next time we met he handed me a jar of inoculated grain for an obscure mushroom I had made a point of finding.
I said I had to find that very mushroom and bring it back to Long Island to grow it in the sand dunes behind my house in Mattituck. I figured if it grew wild in the dunes of Washington State (and really nowhere else) I would make it work here somehow.

I never got to the dunes of Washington State but did end up growing Azurescens successfully in Mattituck and from that first successful batch - the ones we called our children, have birthed many more children of their own.
Mushrooms are integral to our relationship and show us the path along our own unrealized depth of consciousness…I do their bidding as they liberate me to do mine. 

For a year drawing on junk mail or any piece of paper I had on my desk, I studied the vocabulary of my subconscious, the repeated patterns and lines a drawing alphabet, an imagery…Someday when we live underground or in outer space, our food, shelter, and medicine will likely be mushrooms. They have no center and no edge, however bring an exalted focus and reality. Witness the mushroom.
If I needed anymore proof that mushrooms are poet and poetry, that there is no way to get away from their hold, it is in his title: 
Strange Attractors, a Chaotic Bloom 
And so is this show ~

So Did the Hawk, So Does the Dove - 2023
Mushroom paper, tattoo ink, psilocybin spores for shading -
14 x 14 in

Where Did the Night Go - 2023 Mushroom paper, tattoo ink white acrylic paint, psilocybin spores for shading, collage of personal drawings and photos -
17 x 17 in

The Birds Are The Ones, Sending Messages from Another - 2023, Mushroom paper, tattoo ink white acrylic paint, psilocybin spores for shading, collage of personal drawings and photos - 17 x 17 in

Pages décritures - 2023, Mushroom paper, tattoo ink, psilocybin spores for shading - 14 x 14 in 

Bones Bridges - 2023, Mushroom paper, tattoo ink white acrylic paint, psilocybin spores for shading, collage of personal drawings and photos - 17 x 17 in 

Flowers in Vase - 2023, Mushroom paper, tattoo ink, psilocybin spores for shading - 14 x 14 in

Wake up Call - 2023, Mushroom paper, tattoo ink, psilocybin spores for shading - 14 x 14 in