Jenny Scobel

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.

Early and personal life 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. She received her Master of Fine Arts from Pratt Institute.

She lives and works in Brooklyn, New York. 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.

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." Blue veil, 2003-2004, graphite, wax and watercolor on masonite. Words fell, 2005, graphite, wax and watercolor on gessoed board. Sold at Christie's, London, 2013 All that before, 2006, Zeno X Gallery, Antwerp Untitled girl, 2006, etching and drypoint Kendall School of Design in Grand Rapids, Michigan

Group exhibitions Her work has been exhibited with other artists in London, New York, In 2004, Scobel participated in the exhibition "Sagt holde Frauen: 15 zeitgenössische Kunstlerinnen und das Medium Zeichnung" at the Fridericianum in Kassel, Germany