Winnie Truong is a Toronto-based artist whose work is pretty mind-blowing. At first glance they look like traditional portraits of semi-uptight characters – like a little parody or something. But look closer and you’ll see how oddball and incredible her works are.

The attention to detail in Truong’s work is awe-inspiring. The hours she must put into creating these weird subject’s hair, beards and moustaches is crazy.

But it’s the strange additions she makes – braces, teeth poking through hair, bouffants and beehives – that really add up to make her paintings more strange and wondrous.

You can see Winne Truong’s work right now at Bold Hype Gallery, 547 West 27th Street New York.

More at winnietruong.com.