Jessie grew up in the Midwest, splitting time between Indiana, Ohio, and Michigan before heading south to spend high school in Texas and Louisiana. Heavily influenced by the vividness of early 90s and 00s cartoons and video games, along with an acute familiarity of being a new kid throughout her patchworked upbringing, her colored pencil drawings explore an ever-evolving and inclusive depiction of ‘self’. By embellishing figurative outlines with dreamlike landscapes, objects, and elements, her figures act as an invitation to look beyond the circumstances of our everyday lives and engage with details of human complexity which observation alone fails to fully capture. At once unknowable and familiar, the people in Jessie's drawings live in between memory, reality, and imagination.

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