CLINTON, NJ.- It’s delightful, it’s delicious, it’s . . . disgusting?

Mia Brownell’s solo exhibition at the Hunterdon Art Museum features luminous oil paintings of fruits or meats often entwined with what resembles helixes of DNA. With extraordinary technique she creates imagery reminiscent of the Old Dutch Masters still lifes paired with contemporary scientific modeling.

But Brownell’s still lifes are anything but still.

Pears, plucked chickens, protein strains and human organs often appear to be spinning and swirling against stark white or brooding black backgrounds to lend added dimension and an enhanced sense of motion.

The exhibition, titled “Mia Brownell: Delightful, Delicious, Disgusting,” opened Sunday, Jan. 12 and runs until March 9.

“The Hunterdon Art Museum’s focus on new and innovative work that generates dialogue and ideas fits perfectly with Ms. Brownell’s paintings, which deserve to be seen by a broad public,” said Marjorie Frankel Nathanson, executive director of the Museum.

A native of Chicago, Brownell’s paintings can be found in private, corporate and public art collections including Wellington Management, Fidelity investments and the National Academy of Sciences. Her paintings have been included in group exhibitions worldwide. She teaches painting and drawing at Southern Connecticut State University in New Haven.

Art historian and critic Donald Kuspit of Stony Brook University once said Brownell’s works “give one hope for the future of art. They show that painting is far from dead, and that beauty is still possible in art, and can still be discovered in nature.”