Jenny Scobel | |
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Born | 1955 |
Alma mater | Cleveland Institute of Art (BFA), Pratt Institute (MFA) |
Known for | Painting |
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Jenny Scobel (born 1955) is an American painter who lives and works in New York City. She makes paintings of women and children weaving a sense of innocence with foreboding or darkness. Her works, compared to Romaine Brooks, have been auctioned at Christie's and Sotheby's.
Jenny Scobel was born in Orrville, Ohio [1] and grew up in Mentor, Ohio. [2] At Cleveland Institute of Art, Scobel received her Bachelor of Fine Arts. She received her Master of Fine Arts from Pratt Institute. [3]
She lives and works in Brooklyn, New York. [4]
Scobel makes portraits or figurative paintings of children and women that blend a scene of innocent-like faces with images that suggest an underlying dark or disturbing story. The subtle mixed messages creates a "disarming perspective" and "present a mature approach to creating complex and disarming works. [3] [4] Family tree of a young girl in the foreground, hands in her pockets and a disturbing background of a tree and running blood is one example. [4] She often works in wax and graphite. [3] Journalist Kristin Capp likened her work to that of Romaine Brooks. [5]
Raphael Rubinstein of Art In America said "Scobel is an artist whose attention to detail reaches manic (and sublime) proportions. She poses her subjects - in this show, pensive young women - against wallpaper per whose intricate motifs would exhaust a less patient artist. These backgrounds often seem to reveal the subjects' thoughts, as if the women had dreamed the allegorical scenes into existence." [3]
She gives lectures, such as the April 7, 2010 engagement at the School of Art at Illinois State. [3] Kerry James Marshall is her favorite artist. [2]
A few of Scobel's works are:
Her works are in the public collections at Hudson Valley for Contemporary Art, New York and the Rubell Family Collection in Miami, Florida. [1]
Scobel's work has been exhibited since about 1985. She has had solo shows at:
Her work has been exhibited with other artists in London, New York, [3] and Chicago. [13] In 2004, Scobel participated in the exhibition "Sagt holde Frauen: 15 zeitgenössische Kunstlerinnen und das Medium Zeichnung" at the Fridericianum in Kassel, Germany