New small-cube shreddings by Raymond Waters - Vintage TIME magazine

Raymond Waters has just created two new smaller scale shreddings. For those who have yearned to acquire a Waters but found the prices of the larger works too much to afford at the moment, consider these as great ways to add a Waters work to your collection -- in a price range that also makes them possible gifts for contemporary art lovers in your circle.

The details of the two works are:


Red Army's Budenny (cover) Time Magazine October 13, 1941
Magazine Front Page Glued to Canvas and Mounted to Board with Shredded Magazine Contents at bottom of Plexiglas Case
30.8 by 30.8 by 11 cm
12 by 12 by 4 1/2 inches

Time Magazine No. 1 March 23, 1923
Magazine Front Page Glued to Canvas and Mounted to Board with Shredded Magazine Contents at bottom of Plexiglas Case
30.8 by 30.8 by 11 cm
12 by 12 by 4 1/2 iinches

$500

I owe the blog and readers a series of posts as I was in NYC for several days and at a hotel where the wireless was down (or my computer wireless card was on strike).

The first such post is by way of artistic tribute to the American economy. Above is Raymond Waters' "Five Hundred Dollars", which was part of his Values exhibition earlier this year. You'll get some sense of how it fits into the overall show with my catalogue essay "Foreword: The Art of American Values." The work is $500 U.S. in various denominations, shredded and then arranged on canvas under Plexiglas (a great Canadian invention,by the way -- Plexiglas, that is). It is approximately 66 inches high x 45 inches wide.

Stay tuned for an announcement over the next few days when this work will be placed on a time-limited Dutch auction, where its value will decrease -- indeed, plummet -- day by day until somebody buys it or the seller goes bust.

Announcing new conceptual work by Raymond Waters: The Blackboard Series

Raymond Waters continues apace. Above is the first look of the first work in his new Blackboard Series. The above 45.25 x 66 x 4.25 inch piece is called "Terminator Seed US.Pat. 5723765 March.3, 1998." This painting under Plexiglas shows the principle theory behind the Terminator Seed US. Pat. 5723765 March.3, 1998 as it would have looked in the lab at the time of conception. Waters is most grateful for the assistance of Dr. Malcolm Campbell of the Cell and Systems Biology Department at the University of Toronto in guiding Waters' drawing for content accuracy.

Detail shots of sections of the painting can be viewed on the gallery website on Waters' Artist's Page.