Alex Garant – 3AM Rococo

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3AM Rococo is an exhibition of realistically rendered op art paintings by Alex Garant . Exploring darker tones and playing with patterns and textures, Alex Garant has created portraits in which the faces and eyes of her subjects seem to skip their registers through image redoubling and superimposition. OPENING NIGHT: Saturday, February 9, from 6pm – 9pm. Free entry. Alex Garant will be in attendance! This exhibition runs from February 10 to March 3 and runs alongside the solo shows: Brian Cheung’s Mass Behaviour and Troy Coulterman’s Watching, Waiting . Alex Garant has long been fascinated by the interaction of patterns and symmetry and the resulting optics of their graphic repetition and layering. Her portraits begin with a series of superimposed drawings, pushing the familiar confines of portraiture. The compelling process of attempting to stabilise the image produces a fundamental feeling of perceptual instability. This series introduces more ornamental and theatrical elements that intensify storytelling possibilities. Internationally renowned as the Queen of Double Eyes, Alex Garant studied visual arts at Notre-Dame-De-Foy College, just outside Quebec City, Canada. After graduating in 2001, she ultimately settled in Toronto. She decided to commit to her passion for art after suffering a heart attack in 2012, changing forever how she would see the world. She is a pioneer of contemporary figurative op art. Her oil paintings offer a graphic quality combined with traditional portrait techniques. Garant has established herself as one of the leaders of analog glitch art by using patterns, duplication of elements, symmetry and image superposition as key elements of her imagery.