Wakefulness: A Solo Exhibition | SF

Submitted by the Event Organizer

Spoke Art is pleased to present “Wakefulness”, a solo exhibition of new paintings by Toronto based artist Alex Garant. This month’s show explores the sumptuous and vivid world of traditional portraiture, with a focus on Garant’s signature double-exposed figures. By overstimulating her audience and saturating her canvases in visual stimuli, Garant’s new body of work is both exciting and overwhelming all at once.

Fully immersed in color, pattern and texture – Garant’s portraits oscillate between hallucinatory and psychological. Staring at one of her double-eyed figures can cause cerebral tension and even phantom visions. It’s this kind of agitation that makes her work unique and warps the viewer’s idea of beauty. While classical portraiture exists to position subjects in the best possible light, Garant’s figures engage in a broader contemporary discussion of the female gaze. Through literal amplification, Garant’s paintings assert their authority from a female point of view. By sequestering their own sexuality, they in-turn withdraw the masculine influence so typically seen in female portraiture.

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