Better Version of Me

As well as being a doc geek, I am also an art hound.  And for this reason (among others), NYC is a great place to be.  This item was just jettisoned into my email inbox:

"Humor shedding light into darkness and the fragmented isolation within claustrophobic chaos to render us overwhelmed and incomplete, are just some of the paradoxical themes Ron Beach Jr. and Adam Krueger set out to explore in their art."  This kind of stuff gets my attention.

Beach and Krueger have shared a studio space in Tribeca for a year, and in their exhibit entitled Better version of me, curated by Jenn Wirtz, they take the dynamism that exists in their studio and fix it into their first physical collaboration, a two-man show held at The Canal Chapter December 10 through January 12, 2008.  ("Better Version Of Me" is also the title of a fab song by the beautiful Fiona Apple.)

The process of the show is accessible to the public in two ways:  First the gallery will be open to the public as the artists develop and install their pieces into the space every day from noon to 6:00 p.m. (see above dates).   Then, with further collaboration from director Xander Strohm and alternative media production company, East Pleasant Pictures, bi-weekly webisode clips of Beach and Krueger working on the exhibit will be available for the duration of the project on YouTube.  YouTube searches under "The Canal Chapter" or "adamandron" provide short clips of the Better version of me exhibition documentary--it always comes back to the doc, see.

A reception will follow the completion of the project on Saturday, January 5.  Coolio.