Rensselaerville, a crossroads town sandwiched between New York's Catskill and Adirondack Mountains, enjoys a higher than average percentage of artists. Some time in the future, it might even become a mecca for contemporary art lovers when the Guggenheim Museum opens Second House, a major installation by Richard Prince recently purchased by the museum. Until then, the sleepy hamlet is home to the Way Out Gallery, where an exhibition of work by photographers Catherine Chalmers and Charles Lindsay opens this Saturday.

Charles Lindsay (Upstream, Science Fiction) has recently turned his attention to creating sound works. This weekend he unveils a new piece based on the time he spent living with one of the last Stone Age tribes in Indonesia. In it shaman Aman Lau Lau is heard chanting, talking drums, and shouting monkey calls. The sound piece is accompanied by photographs and fetishes from the tribe's island of Siberut. Photograph top left: Aman Lau Lau by Charles Lindsay.

Best known for her photographs of insects engaged in life-cycle dramas, Catherine Chalmers (Food Chain, American Cockroach) has also been making videos. We Rule, filmed on an island off the coast of Panama, traces a colony of leaf cutter ants as they etch a superhighway through the rain forest, and features sound designed by Lindsay. This is the first collaboration for the artists, who are husband and wife. Also on view is Chalmers' Safari, featuring a chameleon, a poison dart frog, and a horn devil, which was shown at ICPs Ecotopia exhibition last year. We Rule will also be shown in Scanners: The New York Video Festival at New York's Walter Reade Theater in July. Photograph below left: Gecko by Catherine Chalmers.

A percentage of the proceeds from the exhibition will benefit the Rensselaerville Public Library. Photograph below: Way Out Gallery, at left, by Alberto Caputo, its owner.