Jessie Burton is a large-scale figurative artist from Michigan currently residing in Madison, WI. She uses chalk pastel and charcoal to capture anatomy through the spontaneous gesture of her hand, imbuing emotion and autonomy into distorted, potent figures that confront the viewer. By working as she models in her studio mirror, her art delves into the implications of posing, combined with the potential of the figure modeling relationship to innovate poses for the female body that liberate it from patriarchal self surveillance and its subjugation to object or allegory.