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Transitions featured works from the MOCA GA Permanent Collection and new work by MOCA GA artists.

To commemorate the founding of the Museum, Benny Andrews was commissioned to produce a lithograph with master printer, Wayne Kline at the Rolling Stone Press. The lithograph was presented for the first time in this exhibition.

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Transitions featured the work of six artists represented in the MOCA GA permanent collection. The artists showed these works from the collection along side new works. This was the third exhibition for MOCA GA and the first to focus on artists whose work is included in the permanent collection.

Amalia Amaki installed two new works that effectively use mass media techniques of film and marketing to manipulate our own human reflection. She continues to question how these altered images change the perceptions and the recognition of others and ourselves. As you entered the museum, you passed through an installation of earlier work by Linda Armstrong. This work served as a passageway to the center gallery where she filled the walls with drawings made by the spores and fluids from various species of mushrooms. Philip Carpenter’s colored pencil drawings are exquisitely rendered in a manner that can only be described as more than or beyond realism. Every detail is executed with hyper-diligence as though the “life” of the object depended upon the artist “getting it right.” E.K. Huckaby’s new series was a progression of eighteen small paintings of a candle burning shorter as the series comes to an end. The ambiguity of subject matter and the romance of the bizarre can be seen in this work as well as the earlier work from the MOCA GA collection. For sculptor, Jim Waters, this exhibition marked a return to the conical shape found in his earlier work. Using a wide variety of materials, this cone shape is beautifully crafted from layers of wood, paper painted with Liquid Rust, cardboard and in the newest work, Mylar.

To commemorate the founding of MOCA GA, Benny Andrews was commissioned to produce a lithograph with master printer, Wayne Kline at the Rolling Stone Press. This new work, Museumscape began a series titled Scapes, a series featuring interiorscapes, landscapes and cloudscapes. This new work and the lithograph were presented in this exhibition.