Jenny Scobel
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Jenny Scobel | |
|---|---|
| Born | 1955 |
| Alma mater | Cleveland Institute of Art (BFA), Pratt Institute (MFA) |
| Known for | Painting |
| Website | jennyscobel |
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]
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.[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]
Works
A few of Scobel's works are:
- Untitled man, 1993, oil on panel[6]
- One Rose, 1995, Rita Krauss Fine Art[7]
- Blue veil, 2003-2004, graphite, wax and watercolor on masonite.[6] Sold at Sotheby's in 2009[8]
- Words fell, 2005, graphite, wax and watercolor on gessoed board.[6] Sold at Christie's, London, 2013[9]
- All that before, 2006, Zeno X Gallery, Antwerp[7]
- Among friends, 2006, Zeno X Gallery, Antwerp[7]
- Just the same, 2006, graphite, wax and watercolor on gessoed board[6]
- Jenny Scobel, 2006 (exhibition catalog)[10]
- Untitled girl, 2006, etching and drypoint[6]
- Day at a time, 2009, Zeno X Gallery, Antwerp[7]
- Family tree, 2012, Zeno X Gallery, Antwerp[4]
- What the last man took, 2013[2]
Her works are in the public collections at Hudson Valley for Contemporary Art, New York and the Rubell Family Collection in Miami, Florida.[1]
