Jenny Scobel
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
- Name
- Jenny Scobel
- Born
- 1955
- Birthplace
- Orrville, Ohio
- Known for
- Painting
- Education
- Cleveland Institute of Art (BFA), Pratt Institute (MFA)
- Nationality
- United States
- Occupation
- painter
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• Name — Jenny Scobel • Born — 1955 • Birthplace — Orrville, Ohio • Known for — Painting • Education — Cleveland Institute of Art (BFA), Pratt Institute (MFA) • Website — http: jennyscobel.com/
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Jenny Scobel (born 1955) is recorded as a painter. Jenny Scobel was born in 1955 in Orrville, Ohio.
Early and personal life
Early and personal life
Jenny Scobel was born in Orrville, Ohio and grew up in Mentor, Ohio. At Cleveland Institute of Art, Scobel received her Bachelor of Fine Arts. She received her Master of Fine Arts from Pratt Institute. She lives and works in Brooklyn, New York.
Works
Works
A few of Scobel's works are: • Untitled man, 1993, oil on panel • One Rose, 1995, Rita Krauss Fine Art • Blue veil, 2003-2004, graphite, wax and watercolor on masonite. Sold at Sotheby's in 2009 • Words fell, 2005, graphite, wax and watercolor on gessoed board. Sold at Christie's, London, 2013 • All that before, 2006, Zeno X Gallery, Antwerp • Among friends, 2006, Zeno X Gallery, Antwerp • Just the same, 2006, graphite, wax and watercolor on gessoed board • Jenny Scobel, 2006 (exhibition catalog) • Untitled girl, 2006, etching and drypoint • Day at a time, 2009, Zeno X Gallery, Antwerp • Family tree, 2012, Zeno X Gallery, Antwerp • What the last man took, 2013 Her works are in the public collections at Hudson Valley for Contemporary Art, New York and the Rubell Family Collection in Miami, Florida.
Solo exhibitions
Solo exhibitions
Scobel's work has been exhibited since about 1985. She has had solo shows at: • Galerie der Stadt Backnang in Backnang, Germany in 2006 • Michel Soskine, Madrid in 2010 • Kendall School of Design in Grand Rapids, Michigan • Thomas Erben Gallery in New York City. • "Unsolved Mysteries" at Molloy College, Rockville Centre, New York in 1999. • Zeno X in Antwerp, Belgium
Group exhibitions
Group exhibitions
Her work has been exhibited with other artists in London, New York, and Chicago. In 2004, Scobel participated in the exhibition "Sagt holde Frauen: 15 zeitgenössische Kunstlerinnen und das Medium Zeichnung" at the Fridericianum in Kassel, Germany
Life and career
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Life and career
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1955
Jenny Scobel born at Orrville.
Paintings
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. 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. She often works in wax and graphite. Journalist Kristin Capp likened her work to that of Romaine Brooks. 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." She gives lectures, such as the April 7, 2010 engagement at the School of Art at Illinois State. Kerry James Marshall is her favorite artist.
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- 1.Zeno X. Jenny Scobel.
- 2.It Starts with a Face: A Conversation with Jenny Scobel. Atwood Magazine. 2015-05-25.
- 3.The Associated Newspapers of Ceylon Ltd. Visiting Artist Scobel to Speak April 7. US Fed News Service, Including US State News. April 1, 2010.
- 4.Artists To Look Out For At Frieze Art Fair New York 2012: Jenny Scobel Family Tree, 2012 Zeno X Gallery, Antwerp. Huffington Post. May 4, 2012.
- 5.Kriston Capps. Five Portraitists Who Deserve a Spot in the National Portrait Gallery. Washington City Paper. May 9, 2012.
- 6.Artnet.com. Jenny Scobel.
- 7.Mutual Art. Jenny Scobel.
- 8.Artnet.com. Jenny Scobel, auction sales.
- 9.Christie's. Jenny Scobel, Words fell.
- 10.Scobel, Jenny. Jenny Scobel. Galerie der Stadt Backnang. 2006. 228302806.
- 11.JENNY SCOBEL - EXHIBITIONS - MICHEL SOSKINE INC. www.soskine.com.
- 12.Zeno X Gallery. Jenny Scobel.
- 13.Rosetta Stone. Artnet Insider. Artnet.com. November 17, 2010.
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