- Jenny Scobel
Jenny Scobel (1955—) is an American painter. Born in
Orrville, Ohio in 1955, she now lives and works inNew York .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.
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 inKassel (DE). A small catalogue was published in 2006 for her solo exhibition at Galerie der Stadt Backnang (DE).External links
* [http://www.zeno-x.com/artists/jenny_scobel.htm Zeno X Gallery - Jenny Scobel] works, biography and cv
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