Ron Beach

Born on the Streets in No Where City, Ron Beach Jr. started his creative path in the streets, in local bars, churches and other community establishments where he learned that making art was a way for him to release his sexual tension. After receiving an A.F.A from Rockport College he traveled the country and abroad to spread his seeds and start a cult. After doing all he could with that he then tried to finish school but soon realized it sucked and dropped out. After leaving school Beach started a non-profit collective called the 3B group with fellow artist Adam Krueger, dabbled in the slave trade and Art Direction for films and Videos with East Pleasant Pictures. His work has been published in numerous magazines, such as SAGE Yale University Art Review and the back of hardcore porn magazines like Squirt Daily. Beach has shown his work in galleries and museums, such as Philips Du Pury and Company in New York, Canal Chapter in China Town, Maine Museum of Modern Art and dark alleyways around the world. Ron Beach currently lives and works in New York City but plans on relocating to Utah so he can marry all his girlfriends and start a family.

Whether you have the privilege of knowing the artist Ron Beach or not, you know what to expect from one of his shows?pretty much ANYTHING. Beach, known to some as ?No Rules Ron? is proud to announce the opening of his latest project: Swimming Through Ron?s Uterus. This semi-hostile take-over of Gallery Bar located at 120 Orchard Street on the Lower East Side kicks off December 10th. It is a gallery and a bar, while Beach is an artist and a walking party waiting to happen. The show will celebrate this most perfect union of artist and venue and the evolution of this relationship as the weeks progress fusing the two into one sexy monstrous animal. While Gallery Bar is typically an upstairs gallery and a downstairs party venue, Beach is against such segregation. The party follows him, whether he is making more work in the upstairs gallery, filming live performances in the downstairs venue, creating installation work on a whim, or involving club goers in an impromptu photo session for a new painting. Ron Beach invites you to be the inspiration and a part of the party in his living live in work of art this December 10th through January 10th.

Humor in darkness sheds light into our world; while fragmented isolation within claustrophobic chaos can leave us overwhelmed and incomplete are just two of the dialectical themes Ron Beach Jr. and Adam Krueger set out to explore in their art. Beach and Krueger and have shared a studio space in Tribecca for a year now. In the monomania they have for their work, the influence and energy of one artist on the other has proven contagious. In their exhibit titled, "Better version of me, or: Better version of you", curated by Jenn Wirtz, Beach and Krueger take the dynamic collaborative spirit of their studio and fix it into their first physical collaboration, a two man show held at the Canal Chapter December 10th, 2007 through January 12th, 2008. In a refreshing twist, these artists have shifted the focus of the exhibition from product to process. If the essence of art is in its making, this is the phenomenon Beach and Krueger bring to their viewer. The process of the show is accessible to the masses in two ways. The gallery will be open to the public as Beach and Krueger develop and install their pieces into the space beginning December 10th, 2007. In collaboration with Xander Strohm, and alternative media production company East Pleasant Pictures, new webisode clips of Beach and Krueger working on the show will be available bi-weekly on You Tube. In the age of technologically imposed alienation, these artists consume new media and harness it for the purpose and elevation of art. From oil on canvas to film and digital media Beach, Krueger and Strohm have created a new kind of symphony. ,"Better version of me, or: Better version of you" is fresh, radical and long overdo. www.adamandron.com