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Staff VISUAL ARTS REVIEW=
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"Wayne
Kline & the Rolling Stone Press" =
Saturday-Jan.
15. 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Tuesdays-Saturdays. =
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Friday-Jan.
4. 9 a.m.-6 p.m. Mondays-Saturdays. Gallery 100. =
5:30-7
p.m. Friday. =
All
things must pass. As the year 2004 rolls toward its end, two neighboring =
art
institutions have mounted exhibitions, both opening with public receptions
Friday evening, that honor the work of two longtime Atlanta artists, one =
who
is retiring, one who died this fall. =
After 20
years of running Rolling Stone Press, =
To bid
him and the press farewell, the Museum of Contemporary Art of Georgia has
organized an exhibition, opening this weekend, that
celebrates his accomplishments. =
Educated
at the Atlanta College of Art and =
"My
goal was to demonstrate the ability of lithography to respond to the dema=
nds
of a wide range of diverse artists," he said. =
As the
exhibition reveals, he never imposed his own aesthetic on the artists. Th=
ey
range from folk artist Mattie Lou O'Kelly's
memories of growing up in =
Kline,
who will be at the opening, had hoped to sell the press so that someone w=
ould
carry on its work. That did not happen. He is, however, selling what rema=
ins
of the editions of 125 prints made by 60-plus artists. His contact
information will be available at the museum. =
The
Atlanta College of Art's Gallery 100, just down the street from A
consummate draftsman, Thackston was equally a=
dept
in handling less traditional materials. He replicated Rodin's "The
Thinker" with thousands of burnt matchsticks, and he made use of the
hobby-shop accoutrements of model railroad buffs in "Wrong Side of t=
he
Tracks: The Dark Side of Model Railroading," a biting but comic view=
of
a Southern town rampant with ill will and misdeeds. =
Created
for TABOO's "Confessions" show, his=
Rodin
redux was, in part, a humorous take on the
popularity of folk art. But it was deadly serious as well. Thackston used the piece to announce that he was
HIV-positive. =
His
Thinker was contemplating his mortality. Lighting each match before using=
it
was, says his co-TABOO fellow Larry Anderson, a
ritual that bespoke his spiritual side. Thackston was a seeker. He was, Thackston was a member of TABOO, a four-man collaborative of <=
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