
Show No Mercy
2006
A visceral and anarchic collage assembled across two panels, Show No Mercy embodies Dash Snow's raw, confrontational aesthetic through layered fragments of imagery, text, and ephemera torn from the margins of urban life. The work pulses with an aggressive energy, reflecting Snow's instinct to weaponize found materials into a visual document of transgression and defiance. Together, the two parts function as a fractured diptych, collapsing the personal and the political into a chaotic but deeply intentional surface.
- Medium
- collage on board, in 2 parts
- Location
- Phillips, Salt Lake City, UT
- Spotted At
- Auction House · PhillipsView on map
🔨 Auction Lot
20th Century & Contemporary Art Day Sale
October 6, 2016
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Raymond Pettibon
American · b. 1957

Pettibon similarly weaponizes found text and raw imagery into confrontational works steeped in underground punk culture and social transgression, assembling fragments that collapse the personal and political with the same anarchic energy present in Show No Mercy.

Jean-Michel Basquiat
American · b. 1960

Basquiat shared Snow's instinct to channel street culture and urban marginalia into visceral, layered works that function as defiant visual documents, combining text, imagery, and raw aesthetic aggression rooted in New York underground life.

Mike Kelley
American · b. 1954

Kelley worked within a Neo-Dada framework to transform discarded and found materials into provocative assemblages that confront social taboos and subcultural transgression, directly paralleling Snow's collage practice of excavating meaning from the margins of culture.
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