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8 • The Red and Black • Thursday, October 4, 1990
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Head over to Atlanta and see Caroline Aiken and her band Cold
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Newsouth Music Showcase. This band plays raw, honest rhythm
and blues rock and roll.
Georgia photos unorthodox
By RACHEL CURRY
Entertainment Writer
A review of “Altered States: Ten
Georgia Photographers," showing
at the Georgia Museum of Art
through Nov. 17.
Georgia is usually depicted as a
rural, backwoods area covered
with kudzu and draped with
Spanish moss. Barns and water
melon are plentiful and red clay
covers the land.
“Altered States: Ten Georgia
Photographers,” presents a dif
ferent view of Georgia. The exhibit,
currently on display at The
Georgia Museum of Art, showcases
avant-garde artists from around
the state whose ideas about
Georgia are far from traditional.
Curator Donald Keyes has been
putting the exhibit together for
more than a year. He said the pho
tographers taking part in the snow
are unique.
“I think it’s a good cross-section.
They are all very advanced art
ists,” Keyes said. “They’re way out
there, right on the cutting edge.”
Keyes said many of the photog
raphers do not take their photo
graphs with a camera or use a
darkroom to develop them.
“A photograph simply means a
recording of light,” said Keyes.
“Some of the artists use xeroxes,
some use video images and com
puters. It’s very different.”
Keyes said he chose the ten art
ists featured in“Altered States” be
cause of their different methods of
taking pictures and their out-of-
the-ordinary approach towards
their subjects.
“I wanted to deal with photog
raphy as an art form, to really con
tain issues in the works and show
another way of thinking,” he said.
Keyes came up with the idea for
the show when he recognized a
need for a new Southern image.
“Everything is expanding,” he
said. “It r s no longer ‘Gone With the
Wind.’ ”
The photographers taking part
in “Altered States” certainly do not
depict Georgia in an antebellum
mold. Many of the images are
urban and the opposite of tradi
tional Southern art.
Ruth Leitman’s works with
photo-sensitive Plexiglas are beau
tiful and bizarre at the same time.
Leitman takes smokey-toned
images of people and places them
on Plexiglas for a three dimen
sional effect.
Paula Eubanks Smith’s works
are also three dimensional. She
starts with photographs of build
ings, then cuts out portions and
puts another picture behind the
first one. The final effect is like
looking through a window.
Flournoy Holmes’ piece, “Rare
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Keyes chose the ten
artists in the show
because of their out-of-
the-ordinary approach
to their subjects.
Half Dreams,” fills a small room in
the museum and consists of six
wall hangings, two sculptures
made of paper covered in digitally
altered images and two bone sculp
tures.
The wall hangings are enlarged
black and white images of simple
subjects including an eye, a hand
and a little boy’s face. Holmes has
written on one of the works, “It’s
not OK,” and “Protect me from
what I am,” on another.
Human x-rays, scattered bones
and rocks add to the eeriness of
this piece. Rocks and bones are ac
tually attached to one of the wall
hangings.
"Rare Half Dreams” is probably
the best and most disturbing piece
in the exhibit. It is definitely a
must see.
Other artists featured in the
show include Annie Conn, Karekin
Goekjian, Nancy Golden, Robert
Hamilton, Ann Holcomb, Christian
Walker, David Zeigar and Klim-
chak.
UGA Coliseum
Free Admission
Quirky conversation with Twinkie
By CHRISTOPHER GRIMES
Staff Writer
Five people, nine eyebrows:
Twinkie.
Twinkie, a five-piece dada-rock
combo, practices in the back of a
1972 customized Chevy van
that’s been hoisted high above
Rocky’s Pizza, with gravy brown
carpet tacked up so others can’t
hear their powpowpow, pillow-
smother music.
“We’re the darker side of
American life,” said guitarist
Brent Martin.
Shirtless stand-up drummer
Chris Cogan described the band
this way: “We’re one drummer
with four arms, we’re five people
with nine eyebrows — nine to
five. That’s how we met, working
nine to five. An Ooompaloompa
with nine eyebrows.”
Martin has one eyebrow that
spans his whole forehead.
The following is exerpted from
an interview with Twinkie.
Q: How would you describe
your sound?
Cogan: I>et me tell you about
my doctor. He was sweet to me —
he used to give me candy. Last
year, he went to Ace Hardware,
walked right up to her and shot
her in the head. He drove back to
his house and walked down the
hall and he came to a door and he
walked inside and he said,
‘There’s the pillow,” drove across
town and went to a graveyard.
He came to a grave and he laid
down and he put his head on the
pillow and made his head real
comfy-like and he blew his brains
out. My mother told me that the
newspaper had a picture of him
on a stretcher and his tennis
shoes were hanging out at the
end of the sheet.
No, I want to be a breaker box.
Q: John, what does the future
hold for Twinkie?
Driscoll: We’re going to play
this year as Twinkie, but early in
’91, we’re going to change it to the
Pioneers, and then after that
well l>e the New Pioneers, after a
little shakeup.
Q: Shakeup?
Bassist Graham Cunningham:
Peter Fr»y/The fled and Slack'
John Driscoll: Disjointed conversationalist and Twinkie
member chews on chicken. The band practices in a van.
Yeah, we’ll be either bottom up or
top down.
Martin: I thought we were
going to be TwinkieThe New Pi
oneers: the band that gives you a
choice.
G: Chris, you’re in Churchie,
Eraser-In-Law and Twinkie.
How do you find time to be in
three bands and still stay in
school?
Cogan: Well, in sixth grade we
used to sit out on the balcony of a
hotel in Spartanburg and get ci
gars from the drugstore and cup
our hands over them and hoof
them until we got so dizzy. Then
we d just get real loud and obnox
ious.
Q: What can the uninitiated
expect from Thursday’s show?
Cogan: We’re giving away
dates with John and giving out
free fried chicken at the door.
Twinkie appears to strut their
quirky stuff tonight with Heavy
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