Etienne Zack: Loitering Shadows

In the Blackwood Gallery, a survey of paintings by Montreal artist Etienne Zack is on view. Ranging in several different styles over the artist's past six years of painting, with a concentration on recent works, this group of nine paintings represents some of the most radical and curious pictures Zack has produced. Known for his wild palette and crunching of form, history and realities within the picture plane, Zack has developed a body of work known throughout North America and Europe. This survey speaks strongly to recent trends in contemporary painting; depicting some strategies and forms younger painters are taking in the decades following painting's decadent rebirth in the 1980s.

Jesse Jones: The Spectre and the Sphere

Earlier this year, Jesse Jones completed the extraordinary 16mm film The Spectre and the Sphere, which uses the theme of the Communist Internationale and text from Karl Marx's The Communist Manifesto as its script. The twelve-minute film, commissioned by Project Arts Centre, Dublin, is presented in an ominous, evocative installation, where the nostalgic sound of the Theremin plays both during the film and in its other-worldly interval. Shot in the historic Vooruit theatre in Ghent, Belgium (where the Internationale was composed), the film simultaneously conjures up cultural and political histories as a means of reflecting upon contemporary political imaginings. This installation plays in the e|gallery.