Collection: Alex Garant - Sweet Dreams

Sweet Dreams is an exhibition of new paintings by Alex Garant. They serve as a transitional phase from her familiar duplication of elements to almost abstract, more complex compositions.

Opening reception: Saturday, April 24th, 6pm - 9pm.

This exhibition will run from April 25th to May 16th and will coincide with the group show Lucid 2021.

The works represent her wandering mind during the 2020 pandemic and attempt to showcase the up-and-down emotions taking over her imagination in the past few months. Waking up every morning in a haze, longing to remain in a transitional state of consciousness between wakefulness and sleep. Knowing that this new reality is hard to believe and confusing, living every day as a separate capsule. Every day as its own story. Every day as its sole moment.

With a newly understood sense of “here” and “now,” the previously ritualistic transitions from the real world to the dream world often overlapped. Triggering periods of staring into nothingness and lucid symbolism amid resting hours, this unfamiliar world fed inspiration for this new body of works. The paintings feature pastel tones based on the late evening sky observed through the studio windows and character navigating between innocence and complicity.

Alex Garant (Canada), Queen of Double Eyes, studied visual arts at Notre-Dame–De-Foy College. After graduating in 2001, she settled in Toronto. A heart attack in 2012 was the catalyst for her decision to commit to her art. Her alla prima oil paintings combine traditional portrait techniques with a graphic quality. Her work is known for image superposition, symmetry, patterns, and duplication of elements.

SWEET DREAMS

Hello obscure skyline
Laying down with neither despair nor glee
Feeling a shiver up your spine
What then can it be?

Sleep well my child
Here comes the sweetest dream
Let the flowers grow wild
And slowly drift downstream

Into the cloudy haze
Beyond the forces of gravity
Languidly running into the maze
Of your utopian reality