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Okay Mountain Food Fight Mural

unotito — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 18:24:52 +0000

Photos of our week at Vanderbilt University painting a mural are now up here on the Okay Mountain web site.

Bayanihan- Work From Manila- Okay Mountain

unotito — Sat, 09 May 2009 17:25:19 +0000

I curated a show of friends from Manila as a result of my travels there in Nov/Dec of 2007. I’m really proud of the work in the gallery, and a couple of days ago, it was honored by the Austin Critics’ Table as a nominee for best Group Gallery Exhibition in Austin this last year.

So far, there’s been a few local articles written about it:

Austin American-Statesman

and

…might be good

and, finally my friends Zach McDonald and Matthew Rodriguez did this awesomely hilarious coverage on their art blog Circus Gold.

The show will be running for a couple of more weeks, so please come see it before it comes down. I’m happy to open up the gallery if you cannot make it there during regular hours, so please contact me at unotito (at) gmail.com

April 18th, 2009- May 23rd, 2009
Opening reception Saturday, April 18th, 7-10pm
Regular Gallery Hours: Wednesday 7-9pm, Saturday 12-5pm

Okay Mountain
1312 E. Cesar Chavez Ste B (entrance on Navasota Street)
Austin Tx 78702

Artists featured:

Poklong Anading
Bea Camacho
Mariano Ching
Lena Cobangbang
Louie Cordero
Romeo Lee
Kaloy Olavides
Gary-Ross Pastrana
MM Yu

Bayanihan, the fourth installment of our international “No American Talent” series, is a new show of artists from the Philippines curated by Mountaineer Tim Brown. The title refers to a term with many meanings- Bayanihan can be a place, like a town, state or nation, but it can also be a spirit of community shared between people that literally means “being a hero to one another.” In this show, we present a varied group of 9 emerging artists who address this complex word and the relationship they share with their families, their city, their country, and each other.

Okay Mountain at Paragraph Gallery, Kansas City Mo.

unotito — Fri, 23 Jan 2009 02:31:11 +0000

I just got some photos from fellow mountaineer Carlos Rosales-Silva of our collective’s installation at the Project Space of Paragraph Gallery. The show, which was a redux of the show we did at Creative Research Laboratory in Austin, was called “It’s Gonna Be Reverything.” We’ve garned a couple of shows from these shows, so the collaborative effort looks to be booked through 2010. We’re pretty stoked about it.

Austin Ventures Mural: review and final photos

unotito — Mon, 08 Dec 2008 04:02:22 +0000

I realized that i hadn’t done a followup for the earlier entry that showed the mural in progress, so I have a couple of links here that should give you a little information about the final product.

First of all, local poet and writer Dan Boehl did a great job giving a sense of scale, context, and the experience of the mural in this article published in …might be good. Check it out for additional background.

And local photographer Andy Mattern was kind enough to do a series of final portraits of the finished tableux.

Nathan Green, co-mountaineer, posted a bunch of the in-process photos on the Arthouse blog as well.

More soon on the Okay Mountain group show “It’s Gonna Be Reverything” at the Project Space of Paragraph Gallery in Kansas City, Mo.

Austin Ventures Mural Project

unotito — Sat, 23 Aug 2008 14:54:13 +0000

Here is photographic evidence of a mural project that Okay Mountain has been doing this summer. Dave Bryant was instrumental in getting the ball rolling for us. It’s a series of 10 small (smallest 6′x3′) and large (largest 40′ x8′) tableaux that is an allegory about how an idea is brought to the marketplace and the pitfalls and rewards along the way. A character created by Ryan Hennessee, Oliver, shows the progress of the person behind the idea as he makes his way from initial inspiration, to germinating the idea, working with investors to fund the idea, producing and marketing the idea, overlooking it’s progress in a fickle economy, and finally reaping the rewards of his work.
Throughout the tableaux, a game board path with directives (i.e. go ahead 3 spaces) ties everything together.

After the idea was hatched by Dave, Sterling Allen, Ryan Hennessee, and Justin Goldwater, Justin went about giving all of us drawing assignments, and incorporated our different drawing styles into elements unified by a central theme given to each tableau. Here are some inital photos of the work phase of the project, with more to come.

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