Jennifer Hrabota Lesser is a figurative painter living and working in Providence, RI.She is heavily influenced by myth and folklore, especially how tales adapt and evolve to the needs of the times. Her subjects deal with what the unconscious conveys beyond the armor of the exterior, and the need to cover up the unseemly with something beautiful. Although she is heavily influenced by the works of John Everett Millais and William Holman Hunt, her interpretation of myth takes on a feminine perspective, sometimes heralding traditional villains as heroes and casting heroes as villains. Like the modern tale of Circe, by Madeline Miller, her work celebrates the witches and wild women within these stories, they explore the edges of the feminine ideal, painful, lovely, creative and destructive and seek a new feminine mythos.