Jenny Scobel: Women October 26, 2012

Beginning in the early 90s, concurrent with a reemergence of the figure in contemporary painting, Scobel has persistently explored female selfhood as an ambiguous space between external identification and actual self. To this end, she has established a conceptual process, selecting anonymous faces which she often uses in multiple works, and repeatedly recombines with classically female bodies borrowed from the world of fashion and film. Technically, Scobel's medium is drawing, as she works in graphite on gessoed wood panels. However, the tinting of almost photorealist images with watercolor, and the application of wax as a final layer, creates a somewhat confounding hybrid between drawing, painting and photography.