A slender stem of goldenrod, topped by dense bright yellow flowers and with a tangle of roots at its base, stands nearly 5-feet-tall in one of Hawley Hussey’s botanical watercolors.

“Sizzle Dizzle” rocks blue opera gloves, “Nasty Canasta NYC” dazzles in a bikini of green and purple plastic grapes, “Fire Eater Heather” consumes — or perhaps exhales — a massive plume of flame in Hussey’s Instagram-like portraits of burlesque performers.