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Saturday, September 18, 2010

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Okay Mountain Collective members working on "Corner Store," a full-size ersatz convenience store installed at the Pulse Miamai art fair in 2009. "Corner Store" was a commission from Arthouse, the Austin contemporary arts center.

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Okay Mountain Collective members working on "Corner Store," a full-size ersatz convenience store installed at the Pulse Miamai art fair in 2009. "Corner Store" was a commission from Arthouse, the Austin contemporary arts center.

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Detail of "Food Fight," a mural commissioned by Vanderbilt University in Nashville. Near the campus cafeteria, the mural is a humorous riff of a battle scene depicting a war between healthy food and junk food.

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Detail of "Food Fight," a mural commissioned by Vanderbilt University in Nashville. Near the campus cafeteria, the mural is a humorous riff of a battle scene depicting a war between healthy food and junk food.

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The Okay Mountain Collective creates "Food Fight," a mural commissioned by Vanderbilt University in Nashville.

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Detail of "Food Fight," a mural commissioned by Vanderbilt University in Nashville. Near the campus cafeteria, the mural is a humorous riff of a battle scene depicting a war between healthy food and junk food.

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Detail of "It's Going to Be Re-Everything," a 2008 installation at Paragraph Gallery in Kansas City.

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Detail of "It's Going to Be Re-Everything," a 2008 installation at Paragraph Gallery in Kansas City. The picnic table in the foreground is similar to the one at which the Okay Mountain Collective holds meetings at the East Austin Gallery.

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Detail of "It's Going to Be Re-Everything," a 2008 installation at Paragraph Gallery in Kansas City. The picnic table in the foreground is similar to the one at which the Okay Mountain Collective holds meetings at the East Austin Gallery.

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Okay Mountain Collective members at work on "It's Going to Be Re- Everything," a 2008 installation at Paragraph Gallery in Kansas City.

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Okay Mountain Collective members at work on "Corner Store," a full-size ersatz convenience store installed at the Pulse Miami art fair in 2009.

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Detail of "Corner Store," an installation at the Pulse Miami art fair in 2009. The Okay Mountain Collective won the both the Pulse Prize and Viewer's Choice Award for "Corner Store."

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Detail of "Corner Store," an installation at the Pulse Miami art fair in 2009. The collective made hundreds of ersatz consumer items typically found in a convenience store. The items were sold during the art fair.

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Okay Mountain Collective members packed "Corner Store" into a truck to haul to Miami for the Pulse Miami art fair. The collectives ten members are Sterling Allen, Tim Brown, Peat Duggins, Justin Goldwater, Nathan Green, Ryan Hennessee, Josh Rios, Carlos Rosales- Silva, Michael Sieben and Corkey Sinks.

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Detail of "Corner Store," an installation at the Pulse Miami art fair in 2009. The collective made hundreds of ersatz consumer items typically found in a convenience store.

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The outside of "Corner Store," an installation at the Pulse Miami art fair in 2009. All of the objects used in the installation were hand-crafted by the artists of Okay Mountain Collective.

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Detail of "Corner Store," an installation at the Pulse Miami art fair in 2009, shows the fake calling cards that were for sale. All of the objects used in the installation were hand-crafted by the artists of Okay Mountain Collective.

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Detail of "Corner Store," an installation at the Pulse Miami art fair in 2009. All of the objects used in the installation were hand- crafted by the artists of Okay Mountain Collective and were available for sale. The Okay Mountain Collective won the both the Pulse Prize and Viewer's Choice Award for "Corner Store."

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Detail of "Corner Store," an installation at the Pulse Miami art fair in 2009. The collective made hundreds of ersatz consumer items typically found in a convenience store.

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Detail of "Corner Store," an installation at the Pulse Miami art fair in 2009. "We're skewering stuff but no so radically that's it's not recognizable," says Michael Sieben, one of the ten artists of the Okay Mountain Collective. "We're working within the language of the things we're referencing. We hope it comes across that we're fans of the type of culture we're making art about."

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Detail of "Corner Store," an installation at the Pulse Miami art fair in 2009. The art work created by the Okay Mountain Collective is equal parts hand-made and hi-tech, campy and endearing.

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Detail of "Corner Store," an installation at the Pulse Miami art fair in 2009. The Austin-based Okay Mountain Collective has garnered veritable blitz of national exposure in the last year.

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Detail of "Corner Store," an installation at the Pulse Miami art fair in 2009. The collective made hundreds of ersatz consumer items typically found in a convenience store.

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Detail of "Corner Store," an installation at the Pulse Miami art fair in 2009. All of the objects used in the installation were hand- crafted by the artists of Okay Mountain Collective and were available for sale. The Okay Mountain Collective won the both the Pulse Prize and Viewer's Choice Award for "Corner Store."

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"Corner Store," an installation at the Pulse Miami art fair in 2009. The work was bought by Kentucky hotelier Steve Wilson and his wife Laura Lee Brown, major contemporary art collectors who opened the edgy, posh 21c Museum Hotel in Louisville largely to showcase their collection.

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Detail of "Corner Store," an installation at the Pulse Miami art fair in 2009. Like jazz musicians riffing on each other's improvisations while always keeping the same beat, so does the Okay Mountain Collective create in constant response to the group. "(The final piece of art) always ends up a mash up of everyone's ideas,"
says collective member Nathan Green. "Everyone's playing off what's being made while it's being made. We're changing things the whole way through to the end."

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Detail of "Corner Store," an installation at the Pulse Miami art fair in 2009. "There are ten sets of hands, ten brains, ten imaginations all making this one thing," say Okay Mountain Collective member Sterling Allen. "Really, I don't think there's nothing else we'd rather be doing."

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Detail of "Corner Store," an installation at the Pulse Miami art fair in 2009. To make their detail-obsessed installation, the Okay Mountain Collective engages in painstaking planning as much as fun- filled artistic brainstorming. "We spend almost as much time planning how we're going to do something as doing it," says artist member Michael Sieben.

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Detail of "Corner Store," an installation at the Pulse Miami art fair in 2009. "We're skewering stuff but no so radically that's it's not recognizable," says Michael Sieben, one of the ten artists of the Okay Mountain Collective. "We're working within the language of the things we're referencing. We hope it comes across that we're fans of the type of culture we're making art about."

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Okay Mountain Collective members working on "Big Strange Mystery," an immersive installation at Texas State University in 2010.

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"Big Strange Mystery," an immersive installation at Texas State University in 2010. The work borrows, mimics and transforms various ideas associated with such phenomena and institutions as Crypto- Zoology, UFOS's and natural history museums.

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"Big Strange Mystery," an immersive installation at Texas State University in 2010. The installation is something of a fake science exhibition that purports to document the existence and serarch for an elusive water creature.

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Okay Mountain Collective members working on "Big Strange Mystery," an immersive installation at Texas State University in 2010. "Working together as a group wasn't necessarily a natural thing for any of us," says artist member Sterling Allen. All ten artists in the collective have busy individual careers of their own.

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Detail of "Big Strange Mystery," an immersive installation at Texas State University in 2010.

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Okay Mountain Collective members working on "Big Strange Mystery," an at Texas State University in 2010.

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"Big Strange Mystery," an installation at Texas State University in 2010. The installation is something of a fake science exhibition that purports to document the existence and serarch for an elusive water creature.

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Detail of a mural that was a part of "Big Strange Mystery," an installation at Texas State University in 2010.

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"(The final piece of art) always ends up a mash up of everyone's ideas," says collective member Nathan Green. "Everyone's playing off what's being made while it's being made. We're changing things the whole way through to the end." "Big Strange Mystery," an installation at Texas State University in 2010.

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Detail of a mural that was a part of "Big Strange Mystery," an installation at Texas State University in 2010.

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A mural commissioned by Austin Ventures for its offices. The nine- part mural tells the story of how an entrepreneur's idea is brought to a marketplace, and venture capitalism's role in that process.
Photo by Andy Mattern.

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A mural commissioned by Austin Ventures for its offices. The nine- part mural tells the story of how an entrepreneur's idea is brought to a marketplace, and venture capitalism's role in that process.
Photo by Andy Mattern.

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A mural commissioned by Austin Ventures for its offices. The nine-part mural tells the story of how an entrepreneur's idea is brought to a marketplace, and venture capitalism's role in that process. Photo by Andy Mattern.

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A mural commissioned by Austin Ventures for its offices. The nine-part mural tells the story of how an entrepreneur's idea is brought to a marketplace, and venture capitalism's role in that process. Photo by Andy Mattern.

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Okay Mountain Collective members working on "Corner Store," a full-size ersatz convenience store installed at the Pulse Miamai art fair in 2009. "Corner Store" was a commission from Arthouse, the Austin contemporary arts center.

Story: Okay Mountain makes a big art-world splash

Detail of "Food Fight," a mural commissioned by Vanderbilt University in Nashville. Near the campus cafeteria, the mural is a humorous riff of a battle scene depicting a war between healthy food and junk food.

Story: Okay Mountain makes a big art-world splash

Detail of "Food Fight," a mural commissioned by Vanderbilt University in Nashville. Near the campus cafeteria, the mural is a humorous riff of a battle scene depicting a war between healthy food and junk food.

Story: Okay Mountain makes a big art-world splash

The Okay Mountain Collective creates "Food Fight," a mural commissioned by Vanderbilt University in Nashville.

Story: Okay Mountain makes a big art-world splash

Detail of "Food Fight," a mural commissioned by Vanderbilt University in Nashville. Near the campus cafeteria, the mural is a humorous riff of a battle scene depicting a war between healthy food and junk food.

Story: Okay Mountain makes a big art-world splash

Detail of "It's Going to Be Re-Everything," a 2008 installation at Paragraph Gallery in Kansas City.

Story: Okay Mountain makes a big art-world splash

Detail of "It's Going to Be Re-Everything," a 2008 installation at Paragraph Gallery in Kansas City. The picnic table in the foreground is similar to the one at which the Okay Mountain Collective holds meetings at the East Austin Gallery.

Story: Okay Mountain makes a big art-world splash

Detail of "It's Going to Be Re-Everything," a 2008 installation at Paragraph Gallery in Kansas City. The picnic table in the foreground is similar to the one at which the Okay Mountain Collective holds meetings at the East Austin Gallery.

Story: Okay Mountain makes a big art-world splash

Okay Mountain Collective members at work on "It's Going to Be Re- Everything," a 2008 installation at Paragraph Gallery in Kansas City.

Story: Okay Mountain makes a big art-world splash

Okay Mountain Collective members at work on "Corner Store," a full-size ersatz convenience store installed at the Pulse Miami art fair in 2009.

Story: Okay Mountain makes a big art-world splash

Detail of "Corner Store," an installation at the Pulse Miami art fair in 2009. The Okay Mountain Collective won the both the Pulse Prize and Viewer's Choice Award for "Corner Store."

Story: Okay Mountain makes a big art-world splash

Detail of "Corner Store," an installation at the Pulse Miami art fair in 2009. The collective made hundreds of ersatz consumer items typically found in a convenience store. The items were sold during the art fair.

Story: Okay Mountain makes a big art-world splash

Story: Okay Mountain makes a big art-world splash

Detail of "Corner Store," an installation at the Pulse Miami art fair in 2009. The collective made hundreds of ersatz consumer items typically found in a convenience store.

Story: Okay Mountain makes a big art-world splash

The outside of "Corner Store," an installation at the Pulse Miami art fair in 2009. All of the objects used in the installation were hand-crafted by the artists of Okay Mountain Collective.

Story: Okay Mountain makes a big art-world splash

Detail of "Corner Store," an installation at the Pulse Miami art fair in 2009, shows the fake calling cards that were for sale. All of the objects used in the installation were hand-crafted by the artists of Okay Mountain Collective.

Story: Okay Mountain makes a big art-world splash

Story: Okay Mountain makes a big art-world splash

Detail of "Corner Store," an installation at the Pulse Miami art fair in 2009. The collective made hundreds of ersatz consumer items typically found in a convenience store.

Story: Okay Mountain makes a big art-world splash

Story: Okay Mountain makes a big art-world splash

Detail of "Corner Store," an installation at the Pulse Miami art fair in 2009. The art work created by the Okay Mountain Collective is equal parts hand-made and hi-tech, campy and endearing.

Story: Okay Mountain makes a big art-world splash

Detail of "Corner Store," an installation at the Pulse Miami art fair in 2009. The Austin-based Okay Mountain Collective has garnered veritable blitz of national exposure in the last year.

Story: Okay Mountain makes a big art-world splash

Detail of "Corner Store," an installation at the Pulse Miami art fair in 2009. The collective made hundreds of ersatz consumer items typically found in a convenience store.

Story: Okay Mountain makes a big art-world splash

Story: Okay Mountain makes a big art-world splash

"Corner Store," an installation at the Pulse Miami art fair in 2009. The work was bought by Kentucky hotelier Steve Wilson and his wife Laura Lee Brown, major contemporary art collectors who opened the edgy, posh 21c Museum Hotel in Louisville largely to showcase their collection.

Story: Okay Mountain makes a big art-world splash

Story: Okay Mountain makes a big art-world splash

Detail of "Corner Store," an installation at the Pulse Miami art fair in 2009. "There are ten sets of hands, ten brains, ten imaginations all making this one thing," say Okay Mountain Collective member Sterling Allen. "Really, I don't think there's nothing else we'd rather be doing."

Story: Okay Mountain makes a big art-world splash

Story: Okay Mountain makes a big art-world splash

Story: Okay Mountain makes a big art-world splash

Okay Mountain Collective members working on "Big Strange Mystery," an immersive installation at Texas State University in 2010.

Story: Okay Mountain makes a big art-world splash

"Big Strange Mystery," an immersive installation at Texas State University in 2010. The work borrows, mimics and transforms various ideas associated with such phenomena and institutions as Crypto- Zoology, UFOS's and natural history museums.

Story: Okay Mountain makes a big art-world splash

"Big Strange Mystery," an immersive installation at Texas State University in 2010. The installation is something of a fake science exhibition that purports to document the existence and serarch for an elusive water creature.

Story: Okay Mountain makes a big art-world splash

Story: Okay Mountain makes a big art-world splash

Detail of "Big Strange Mystery," an immersive installation at Texas State University in 2010.

Story: Okay Mountain makes a big art-world splash

Okay Mountain Collective members working on "Big Strange Mystery," an at Texas State University in 2010.

Story: Okay Mountain makes a big art-world splash

"Big Strange Mystery," an installation at Texas State University in 2010. The installation is something of a fake science exhibition that purports to document the existence and serarch for an elusive water creature.

Story: Okay Mountain makes a big art-world splash

Detail of a mural that was a part of "Big Strange Mystery," an installation at Texas State University in 2010.

Story: Okay Mountain makes a big art-world splash

Story: Okay Mountain makes a big art-world splash

Detail of a mural that was a part of "Big Strange Mystery," an installation at Texas State University in 2010.

Story: Okay Mountain makes a big art-world splash

A mural commissioned by Austin Ventures for its offices. The nine- part mural tells the story of how an entrepreneur's idea is brought to a marketplace, and venture capitalism's role in that process. Photo by Andy Mattern.

Story: Okay Mountain makes a big art-world splash

A mural commissioned by Austin Ventures for its offices. The nine- part mural tells the story of how an entrepreneur's idea is brought to a marketplace, and venture capitalism's role in that process. Photo by Andy Mattern.

Story: Okay Mountain makes a big art-world splash

A mural commissioned by Austin Ventures for its offices. The nine-part mural tells the story of how an entrepreneur's idea is brought to a marketplace, and venture capitalism's role in that process. Photo by Andy Mattern.

Story: Okay Mountain makes a big art-world splash

A mural commissioned by Austin Ventures for its offices. The nine-part mural tells the story of how an entrepreneur's idea is brought to a marketplace, and venture capitalism's role in that process. Photo by Andy Mattern.

Story: Okay Mountain makes a big art-world splash

A mural commissioned by Austin Ventures for its offices. The nine- part mural tells the story of how an entrepreneur's idea is brought to a marketplace, and venture capitalism's role in that process.
Photo by Andy Mattern.

A mural commissioned by Austin Ventures for its offices. The nine- part mural tells the story of how an entrepreneur's idea is brought to a marketplace, and venture capitalism's role in that process.
Photo by Andy Mattern.