John WatersFollow This Artist
Born: 1946
Hometown: Baltimore, MD
Lives and Works: Baltimore, MD
Education:
New York University, New York, NY
John Waters Bio
About The Artist
Inspired by B-films and melodramas, John Waters began making films as a teenager, using friends and stolen film stock. His films feature drag queens, drugs, violence, abortion, religion, and depravity, poking fun at their offensiveness while wallowing in it. Later, bigger budget films star Hollywood icons, while still rollicking in poor taste and tackiness.
In the 1990s, Waters started photographing videos on his television, which he edited into "little movies": various drugstore-processed stills strung together as horizontal filmstrips. These works have been exhibited widely and a traveling exhibition premiered at the New Museum, New York, NY. Waters has authored several journalistic books, a recent memoir, and is an avid art collector. In 2011, he curated an exhibition from the collection of the Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN.
John Waters Gallery Art
Galleries
Marianne Boesky Gallery, New York, NY
John Waters Permanent Collections
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Musée du sourire, Paris, France
Fotomuseum Winterthur, Winterthur, Switzerland
Polk Museum of Art, Lakeland, FL
The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA
John Waters Art
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