Who’s Afraid of the Big Bad Wolf?, Graphite and Acrylic on Paper, 26 x 40″, Cerebral Spaces, Jessica Burke (2009)

Jessica ‘JB’ Burke is a figurative artist, queer woman and educator that has been teaching at the university level since 2005. she is an Associate Professor of Art and Coordinator of the Foundations Program at the University of North Carolina in Charlotte. Her work is influenced by the theoretical idea that all gender is a cultural construction. She writes, “This body of work [Cerebral Spaces] is a meditation on identity that seeks to portray figurative allegories of gendered experience. The layered images combine graphic elements, objects and traditionally modelled figurative work in order to clarify the influence of popular culture that has operated as a teaching tool in the development of my personal ideology.