Jenny Scobel

Jenny Scobel’s works are executed in graphite and oil paint on prepared wooden panels or vellum. These portraits range from widely known figures such as Michelle Pfeiffer and Virginia Woolf, to completely anonymous women who have been cut out from printed media or photographs. The portrayed subjects seem however deformed because the proportions of head and body are not always compatible. The same model is often reintroduced in a slightly altering but ever prominent décor. These intimate backgrounds give the scene an unsettling and uncanny feeling, also because the figures and their environment seem to come from a different period of time. Scobel’s paintings allude to beauty and its underlying calamity. The image will never reveal its true story.

Submitted by Zeno X Gallery