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Mario Soria is a painter of hyper-realistic portraits whose celebrity subjects have included Andy Warhol and Woody Allen.
Beyond portraiture, he places his subjects in a hectic scene of sail boats, bees, pencils, miniature people, and umbrellas. The objects and their allocation are random, he says, but generally serve to replicate style of an I Spy book.
In addition to these illustrated elements, some of his paintings are embellished for the sake of eccentricity with Lego pieces and other three-dimensional objects that protrude from the canvas.
