supersonicart : Alex Garant’s “Deconstructing Identities” at LMOAH. Currently virtually on view at Lancaster Museum of Art and presented by Thinkspace Projects as part of their curated exhibitions, “The New Vanguard III,” is artist Alex Garant’s exhilarating new body of work, “Deconstructing Identities.” Not unlike the fugitive flicker of a screen or the spectral layering of multiple film exposures, her portraits reveal an unsettling multiplicity, shifting beneath the subject’s surface. Garant creates faces that challenge the optics of identity and the reductive way in which it is perceived, with a visual gimmick that quite literally dislodges and displaces its coherence to produce skittering psychological images of fracture and ricochet. 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 based on her sitters, a