Jack Hanley split his gallery space in two for a concise show of little drawings on paper and two video projections by Euan Mac Donald, a Toronto artist who recently left SF for Los Angeles. Small pen and ink drawings in modest frames described mundane images in haunting locales, indefinite goings on. In a deadpan depiction from a voyeuristic viewpoint, a dramatic scene of a man with his boot on fire in a dark clearing evokes the panic of a night spent in the woods by a city dweller, or other, more deeply psychological and emotional implications.

In one of his most powerful works to date, Three Trucks (2001) a video projection describes an encounter at a crossroads between 3 Southern California ice cream trucks. They approach each other slowly, in deliberate movements like those cherished in avant-garde dance and operatic suspense films and Matthew Barney. Deliberately and ridiculously, the merry-go round music of the individual trucks cycle and blend to create a modernist kitsch symphony. The eerie strains of "It's a small world after all" materialize. Is the Mexican music more familiar, or does the indecipherable carousel music dominate? Does what we hear depend on the cultural bias of the viewer? MacDonald's intentionally modest means create a poignant and humorous effect. This short, simple video raises complex issues of conflict and resolution, anonymity and recognition of the self, cultural confluence and dissonance, and fear and avoidance with the metaphor of a silly but meaningful coincidence.