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Hyperrealistic, peculiar grimaces and twisted expressions set the tempo in Sara Birns’ whimsical world of distorting, funhouse mirrors. Using old master oil techniques, Birns paints personified fauna and portraits mingling features of various individuals as well as her own, hinting at a kaleidoscopic universe where diverse beings fuse into new eerie creatures, appearing as if plucked from feverish dreams. A sense of familiarity intertwines with compelling disquiet, suggesting departure from the ordinary.

The otherwise blank space oddly dissolves to give way to the conjuring of wilderness; …