12 Facts About Jenny Scobel

Jenny Scobel was born on 1955 and is an American painter who lives and works in New York City.

Jenny Scobel makes paintings of women and children weaving a sense of innocence with foreboding or darkness.

Jenny Scobel's works, compared to Romaine Brooks, have been auctioned at Christie's and Sotheby's.

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.

Jenny Scobel received her Master of Fine Arts from Pratt Institute.

Jenny 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.

Jenny Scobel poses her subjects - in this show, pensive young women - against wallpaper per whose intricate motifs would exhaust a less patient artist.

Jenny Scobel gives lectures, such as the April 7,2010 engagement at the School of Art at Illinois State.

Jenny Scobel's works are in the public collections at Hudson Valley for Contemporary Art, New York and the Rubell Family Collection in Miami, Florida.

Jenny Scobel's work has been exhibited with other artists in London, New York, and Chicago.

In 2004, Jenny Scobel participated in the exhibition "Sagt holde Frauen: 15 zeitgenossische Kunstlerinnen und das Medium Zeichnung" at the Fridericianum in Kassel, Germany.