Jenny Scobel

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Jenny Scobel (1955—) is an American painter. Born in Orrville, Ohio in 1955, she now lives and works in New York.

[edit] Paintings

Scobel’s oeuvre mainly consists of portraits executed on prepared wooden panels in graphite and oil paint.

Scobel paints the same model over and over again, always on a different torso, always in a different décor. The scenery often appears to be wallpaper with decorative patterns, dating back to the 1930s and 40s and causes, in combination with the frontal figures, a sense of estrangement. The paintings incorporate at the same time beauty and decay.

In other works she chooses the heads, whether they belong to well-known personalities or anonymous people, and cuts them out of print media or photographs. She then places the heads onto random torsos. This causes a deformation in the figures, for the head and body do not originally belong to the same body and the proportions are inaccurate.

[edit] Career

Jenny Scobel had several solo-exhibitions in Europe and the USA, including "Unsolved Mysteries" in Molloy College Rockville Centre, New York in 1999. In 2004, Scobel participated in the exhibition "Sagt holde Frauen: 15 zeitgenssische Kunstlerinnen und das Medium Zeichnung" at the Museum Fridericianum in Kassel (DE). A small catalogue was published in 2006 for her solo exhibition at Galerie der Stadt Backnang (DE).