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Golden
Blizzard is an Atlanta-based art collective currently made up of
eight artists who work in a variety of disciplines. Golden Blizzard
presented their debut solo exhibition at The Museum of Contemporary
Art of Georgia in December of 2005 and quickly followed with solo
shows at both Eyedrum and Young Blood Gallery. For their upcoming
exhibition at Marcia Wood Gallery, the collective further explores
the innovative mash-up of mediums such as wall painting, soft sculpture,
digital projection, and seemingly anything else they can think of
to use, anchored by the collaborative drawings that make up the
heart of their aesthetic.
Achieving an unlikely marriage of masculine and feminine elements,
high and low artistic sensibilities, and melding more traditional
media with such things as glitter, gel pens, Bedazzler and spray-tinsel,
the artists of Golden Blizzard - all of whom also work autonomously
as artists outside the group - similarly find inspiration in the
tension between the self-asserting and ego-obliterating act of collective
expression. As explained by Felicia Feaster in a cover article in
the March 4, 2006, edition of Creative Loafing, the "cutely-cultish
eight-member art collective ... somehow incorporate both the feminine
yin of small furry animals with a masculine yang of oozing pustules,
sex organs, blood and death."
Golden Blizzard is made up of Ellen Black, Errol Crane, Jennifer
Kornder, Alexander Kvares, Ann-Marie Manker, Jordan Reece, Daniel
Upton and Lydia Walls.
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