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| Pimples, 1998 |
| 8 chromogenic prints |
| 5 x 56 inches |
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| Impotent, 2000 |
| 4 chromogenic prints |
| 8 x 40 inches |
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| Method, 1998 |
| 8 chromogenic prints |
| 3.5 x 40 inches |
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| Prancer, 2006 |
| 4 chromogenic prints |
| 4 x 24 inches |
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| Young boy manifests worrisomely effeminate character as he applies (consumes?) lipstick in obsessive manner. Almost certainly taunted by schoolmates as "prancing" [gay]. The title graphic comes from the 1989 Christmas-theme movie, Prancer, in which an eight-year-old determines to save an injured reindeer. |
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| Melissa, 2006 |
| chromogenic prints |
| 17 x 24 inches |
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| "Starring Melissa Rivers" in stereotypically "star vehicle" blue-sky title graphics. As if.... Even Melissa Rivers (daughter of comedienne Joan Rivers) gets the joke. This movie, Waters says, epitomizes "unwatchable." |
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| Horny, 2000 |
| 6 chromogenic prints |
| 10 x 21 inches |
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| Eat Me , 2006 |
| chromogenic prints |
| 16 x 20 inches |
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| This year's sly entry in Waters's memory book of his years with the nuns in Catholic school. He and his schoolmates used a simple code of mirror-image numbers and letters (Eat Me = 3M TA3) to communicate dirty messages without getting found out and punished. His 2003 contribution to the genre recorded the youngsters' upside-down code for Hell (7734). |
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| Letterbox, 2003 |
| chromogenic prints |
| 4 x 12 inches |
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| Badly Framed, 2006 |
| chromogenic print in artist's frame |
| 12 x 18 inches |
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| A critique you'd expect to hear about a movie. Turns out to apply just as meaningfully to certain artworks. As Waters learned, it's extremely hard work to design the perfect bad framing job! Two different moldings in two different colors. Mat not orthogonal. No edges parallel. Title letters jumping around. It really wasn't easy to make this many mistakes. Waters says he was lucky to have the tickled and creative collaboration of his longtime Baltimore framer, Jim Pierce. |
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| 45 Days, 2003 |
| Durst Lamba digital print |
| 26.5 x 25 inches |
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Current Work
2006 Exhibition
