Rene Ricard

Portrait by Dash Snow and Jade Berreau

interview by ANDY SPADE
portrait by DASH SHOW and JADE BERREAU 

 

One of the few literary lights to emerge from the constellation of former Andy Warhol stars, the poet Rene Ricard only becomes more elegant and enigmatic with the passing decades. To the uninitiated, Rene’s turns of phrase may seem like balloons tied to cacti: beautiful, temporal, and tragic. If you can find a copy of his God with Revolver, buy it. I first encountered one of Rene’s artworks — a portrait of a young boy with a cigarette in his mouth — in the 1990s, at a clothing boutique on Mercer Street. I asked the salesperson who the artist was and thus began my search for Rene. We finally met through a mutual friend a few months later at Jacqueline Schnabel’s townhouse. Not only did Rene…