He shows with Marianne Boesky in New York, and is a discerning collector and supporter of young artists as well.Īt 72, Waters remains an enigmatic force in Baltimore. Since then, he has mined the history of film and popular culture into photography, video, sculpture, and sound works that veer from the absurd to reverent. In 1992, he took a grainy still from his early film, Multiple Maniacs, of its deceased star, Divine, and titled it Divine in Ecstacy. What many Hairspray fans don’t realize is, over the past few decades, Waters has transitioned his creative energies from filmmaking into live performances, writing books, and making visual art. Whether intentionally or as a byproduct of his films, the Prince of Puke has become a pillar of the city’s creative community, inspiring lawns full of plastic pink flamingos as well as a certain clever insouciance. If you know next to nothing about Baltimore, you probably learned it from watching one of his films - all of which have been set in the city in which he grew up, and still lives. John Waters is one of Baltimore’s greatest cultural exports. Photo: © John Waters Courtesy Marianne Boesky Gallery John Waters’s first work of art “Divine in Ecstasy”
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