JENNY SCOBEL

° 1955, Orrville (USA)
Lives and works in New York (USA)

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Michaël Borremans

Scobel’s portraits are executed in graphite and oil paint on prepared wooden panels. The head of known personalities, ranging from Virginia Wolf to Michelle Pfeiffer, and anonymous men and women are cut out from print media or found photographs. The images are then spliced onto various iconic torsos. The figures are deformed, as the proportions of head and body are not always compatible.
Again and again, the same model is introduced in a slightly altering, ever prominent décor. The frontal and central, outwardly piercing half-length women are combined to effects of additional estrangement with backgrounds culled from the 1930s and 40s. Set against an intimate background of wallpaper with floral or other decorative patterns, the figures are unsettling, probing psychology. The background design incorporates subtle metaphors of death and family happiness. Scobel’s paintings allude to beauty and its underlying calamity.

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).

 
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
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2007 "Jenny Scobel", Kendall College of Art and Design of Ferris State University, Grand Rapids (US), (November 12 - December 7)
2006 Galerie der Stadt Backnang, Backnang (DE), (May 20 - July 30)
2005 Thomas Erben Gallery, New York (US), (February 18 - March 26)
2003 "Ingots", Thomas Erben Gallery, New York (US), (June 5 - July 25)
2002 "Jenny Scobel", Zeno X Gallery, Antwerp (BE), (May 30 - June 30)
2001 "Works from 1995 - present", Thomas Erben Gallery, New York (US)
2000 Locus Media Inc., New York (US)
1999 "Unsolved Mysteries", Molloy College Rockville Centre, New York (US)
1994 "Secret Lives", Cynthia Mc Callister Gallery, New York (US)
1992 One Square Mile Gallery, Seacliff (US)
1991 "Old Photos and New Paintings", Salena Gallery, Long Island University, Brooklyn (US)
1983 Bologna Center, Bolonga (IT)
 
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
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2008 'Artists of the gallery', Zeno X Storage, Antwerp (BE), (May 9 - May 30)
'Women portraits', Overbeck Gesellschaft, Lübeck (DE), (March 30 - May 11, 2008)
2007 'Artists of the gallery', Zeno X Storage, Antwerp (BE), (March 16 - April 14)
2006 "25 years Zeno X Gallery", Zeno X Gallery & Zeno X Storage, Antwerp (BE), (October 17 - December 2)
  "Subject", Lyman Allyn Museum, London (GB), (May 13 - August 14)
  Worcester Art Museum, Worcester, Massachusetts (US), (March 26 - June 24)
  "Strange", The Cartin Collection @ GFOX, Harford, CT (US), (February 11 - April 9)
2005 "Drawing the Line", Galerie M. + R. Fricke, Düsseldof (DE)
2004 "Sagt holde Frauen: 15 zeitgenössische Künstlerinnen und das Medium Zeichnung", Museum Fridericianum Kassel (DE), (October 10 - November 28)
  "She's Come Undone", Artemis-Greenberg Van Doren Gallery, New York (US-, (June 3 - July 16)
  "Innocence Found", DFN Gallery New York, NY (US)
2002 "American Myths: Bridget Batch and Jenny Scobel", Galleria Traghetto, Venice (IT)
2001 "The Inner Child", Islip Museum, East Islip (US)
2000 "Substance", Neo Images, New York (US)
  "The Conversation", Art Resources, New York (US)
  "Fashion Show", Locus Media Inc., New York (US)
  "Messages from Earth", Marshall Spaceflight Center, Huntville (US)
  "Manic", Locus Media Inc., New York (US)
1999 "Size Matters", Gale Gates et al., Brooklyn (US)
  "Distortion", Anna Kustera Gallery", New York (US)
  "Take Out / Eat In", Molloy College Art Gallery, Rockville Centre (US)
1998 "UnLtd.", D.u.m.b.o. Arts Center, Brooklyn (US)
1997 "All The Things You Are", Geoffrey Young Gallery, Great Barrington (US)
  "Samplings", Track 16, Los Angeles (US)
1995 "Selections", K&E Gallery, New York (US) 
  "Murder", Asher/Faure, Los Angeles (US)
  "Murder", Thread Waxing Space, New York (US)
  "Murder", Center Gallery, Miami-Dade Community College, Miami (US)
1994 "Life/Boat", Rotunda Gallery, Brooklyn (US)
  "Lethal Inspection", Geoffrey Young Gallery, Great Barrington (US)
  "The Way of the Flesh", Mt. San Antonio, Walnut (US)
  Front St. Gallery, Housatonic (US)
1993 "Los Angeles Art Fair", Muranushi/Lederman, Los Angeles (US)
  "Return of the Exquisite Corpse", The Drawing Centre, New York (US)
  "Salon Show", Organization of Independent Artists, New York (US)
  "People II", Gallery 30, New York (US)
  "What you are about to see is real", Muranushi/Lederman, Chicago Art Fair, Chicago (US)
  "The Naked City", 450 Gallery, New York (US)
  Cynthia Mc Callister Gallery, New York (US)
1992 "Menagerie, Capital Cities / ABC", The Museum of Modern Art, Art Advisory Service, New York (US)
  "Value: The Museum Gift Shop", 252 Layfayette, New York (US) 
  "The Tree", Elysium Arts, New York (US)
  "Heaven", Trenkman Gallery, New York (US)
  "A Spark of Genius: Power / Strength / Movement", The Atrium Gallery, Schenectady (US)
1990 "Positive", The Clocktower, New York (US)
  "The Figure Now", Cork Gallery, New York (US)
1989 "A Painter's Brooklyn", The Pratt Manhattan Gallery and The Rubelle & Norman Schafler Gallery, New York (US)
1984

Zenith Gallery, Washington DC (US)

 
 
PUBLICATIONS
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2006

Jenny Scobel
Galerie der Stadt Backnang, Backnang (DE)

2004

In Erster Linie..
21 Künstlerinnen und das Medium Zeichnung, Kunsthalle Fridericianum, Kassel (DE)
text by Barbara Heinrich

 
PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
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  Hudson Valley for Contemporary Art, New York (US)
  Rubell Family Collection, Miami (US)