Dan Colen is still painting.
But instead of raising hell, hes raising pigs and sheep.
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Snow died of a heroin overdose two years later; Colen and McGinley got sober.
In 2011, Colen bought what he namedSky High Farm.
There are bees; theres an orchard.
Colen is a successful artist, one who has never stuck to a particular style.
His materials over the years have included tar, feathers, grass, dirt, and chewed gum.
If you like to go to raves, make art about raves, he says.
If you like to skateboard, you make it about skateboarding.
If you like to get high, you make art about getting high.
Thats all it is.
Whatever interests me is what my art is going to become about.
It just goes against every other thing that I do.
His landscapes have a decidedly cartoonish cast.
The new paintings, influenced by German Romanticism, have a Disneyish sweetness and naivete.
He has begun to sell a small line of foodstuffs and fashion items on the side.
Hes grown up, but also the times have changed.
Now it really is.
I see that young people want to stand up for what they believe in.
And share those ideas.
And wear those ideas.
And, you know, eat those ideas.
