"...[it] avoids at once the whole traditional painterly cuisine, all the intermediaries... but the artist remained the absolute ruler (he was the one spraying, the lines were the result of his movement and those were the result of his will.)" *

Okay Mountain is pleased to present "Cold End", a solo exhibition by Colby Bird of sculpture, photography, video, and painting. Bird had created works that directly reference the "artist's gesture" as it relates to manual labor as a method of situating oneself on the continuum of global commerce and class. The defining of social strata through various modes of labor is a prominent theme in Bird's work, from urban hustling, to blue-collar work, to art-making.

Colby Bird is represented by CRG Gallery in New York. He is included in numerous private collections as well as a number of public collections including The Whitney Museum of American Art. Upcoming exhibitions include "Contemporary Culture" in September at Lora Reynolds Gallery in Austin, "The Summer Show" at CRG Gallery in New York, and "N-1" at the PatinoMuseum, Santa Cruz, Bolivia. He received his MFA from the Rhode Island School of Design in 2004.

*Yve Alain Bois on Martin Barre ------------