Floral Hex is currently on view at 13FOREST Gallery through April 16. This solo exhibit highlights the paintings of Nicole Duennebier, an artist who's been working in Massachusetts for over ten years, exhibiting across the state both solo and alongside her sister, Caitlin. Floral Hex is Duennebier's third solo show at 13FOREST Gallery, featuring paintings of flowers and floral arrangements. Her compositions bring to mind the old masters, Dutch still-lifes and Rococo landscapes in their attention to detail. But these paintings aren't idly pretty artworks, as Duennebier prefers to inject an element of the grotesque into her work, making her pieces simultaneously compelling and challenging. Some paintings feature floral wreaths and memorials depicted in lonely caves and desolate woods, conveying a sense of melodrama and isolation. Others contain carelessly squashed blossoms and fluttering insects marring the beauty of a bouquet. Perhaps most striking are the paintings in which flowers surround dead fish or slimy, unidentifiable meat. Each artwork has something unsettling about it, whether obvious or subtle, that adds a layer of emotional depth. Duennebier's work in Floral Hex is complex, both beautiful and uncanny, offering an duality that both repulses and entrances the viewer. 13FOREST Gallery is located at 167A Massachusetts Avenue in Arlington, Massachusetts and is open Tuesday—Sunday, 12:00—6:00 p.m. For more information, visit 13forest.com/floral-hex.