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Oil painter Marco Grassi’s arresting large scale portraits manage to marry a gestural sense of abstraction with impressive realism and an understanding of the human form. The addition of gold leaf and a deftly handled rainbow of colors adds a dreamlike element to his work, elevating his ordinary subjects into goddess-like figures. On the micro level, Juan Carlos Collado’s exquisite mixed media pieces embody a realism that at first tricks the eye - hundreds of lifelike butterflies fashioned from feathers, silk, and paint. But zoomed out, they form swooping, painterly forms that elegantly evoke …