Artist Marc Dennis renders lush still lifes that layer glossy bubbles, insects, and birds atop fleeting imagery.

The quality of the brush strokes is sober but full of meticulous attention, as most of her still-life works can be seen as part of the Dutch hyperrealism that dominated the 17th-century art scene.

As one Dutch observer wrote, “this elephant understood and did almost everything that its master orders it to do. It was a wonder that such a plump beast had such a sharp understanding.” ...