Jenny Toth Art
Jenny Toth works in Manhattan, sometimes in her apartment, sometimes in her studio, and sometimes you can see her drawing at the zoo. She is an Associate Professor of Art at Wagner College, where she has been teaching painting, drawing, and other creative adventures since 1999. Jenny received her B.A. from Smith College in 1994 and her M.F.A. from Yale School of Art in 1998. She attended Yale from 1994-1995 and then took a two-year hiatus and attended The New York Studio School from 1995-1997 where she studied with many amazing people like Graham Nickson, Mercedes Matter and Charles Cajori. She returned to Yale in 1997-1998. Jenny has also taught at Smith College and SUNY Potsdam. She has traveled alone to such far-flung places as Greenland and West Papua, and regularly spends time in San Miguel de Allende, Mexico and La Jolla, CA. She lives with her two sons, husband, and her dogs Muppet and Mr. Scruffles. Her two life-long passions in life are art and animals. She hopes to spend the rest of her life having adventures, learning and playing the NYTimes Spelling Bee.
Known for painting fantastical, sometimes self-reflective narrative scenes with a touch of humor, Jenny Toth works from direct observation, sometimes with the aid of elaborate set-ups and props. Typically, the scenes she transcribes onto canvas or paper constitute a variation on self-portraiture, stemming from her interest in how women choose to portray themselves versus how male artists have traditionally depicted them including “flaws” like a deformed toe or hairy legs underscores her premium on honesty over vain attempts at conforming to conventional beauty standards. Through portraits of herself hiding behind a cactus, a fisherman’s net, or a mask, Toth explores themes of inner struggle, fear of loneliness, and wariness of intimate commitment. Later her work includes the joys and frustrations of motherhood and complex feelings depicted with animals as a source.
(Biography provided by Tabla Rasa Gallery)
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Artist: Jenny Toth
A Bird in the Hand is Worth Two Squirrels in a Cactus, animals
By Jenny Toth
Located in Brooklyn, NY
This is an unusual image in the cactus-filled desert of a squirrel reaching towards a human hand that is tenderly holding a small bird. The image is striking because of its strong g...
Category
2010s Modern Jenny Toth Art
Materials
Watercolor, Pen, Woodcut, Archival Ink, Archival Paper
Portrait of Artist with Elmo, colorful childhood theme w ironic twist
By Jenny Toth
Located in Brooklyn, NY
This is an oil painting done from life with the artist's young son''s large stuffed red Elmo in repose in front of the mirror.
The painting is both tender and bold. It captures one...
Category
2010s Contemporary Jenny Toth Art
Materials
Cotton Canvas, Oil
Dreams of Red Macaw, bright, colorful abstract work with bird
By Jenny Toth
Located in Brooklyn, NY
This is an oil painting painted from a relief sculpture created by the artist. The image is complex and rich, and depicts a red macaw perched on a branch an...
Category
2010s Contemporary Jenny Toth Art
Materials
Cotton Canvas, Oil
Distance Bridged by a Bunny, bright colors
By Jenny Toth
Located in Brooklyn, NY
This is a painting of a nude woman sitting on a bed with her leg extended and her foot pushed against a mirror behind the head of the bed. She is looking at the sleeping man next to...
Category
2010s Modern Jenny Toth Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Lizard Tongues and Tears, nude male and lizard, mostly monochromatic w green
By Jenny Toth
Located in Brooklyn, NY
The image is 8 x 8 inches, and the paper it is printed on is 15 x 13.5 inches. This is a quirky and tender image of a naked man sitting on the floor holding a giant iguana on his la...
Category
2010s Feminist Jenny Toth Art
Materials
Paper, Ink, Etching, Watercolor
Have a Backbone
By Jenny Toth
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Oil painting depicting a woman in a mirror with an animal backbone visible where her backbone would be, and a giant eye peering on. Expressionist and emotional, the space is engagin...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Jenny Toth Art
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Finger Parrot, monochromatic print bold graphic, surreal bird, hands
By Jenny Toth
Located in Brooklyn, NY
This is an artist proof (one of a kind) aquatint of a parrot made up of fingers, and beautiful insects cascading to her right. She has a human ear on one side. The images is 6 x 6 ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Jenny Toth Art
Materials
Paper, Ink, Archival Ink, Aquatint
Mexican Garden Tangle
By Jenny Toth
Located in Brooklyn, NY
This is an artist proof (one of a kind) aquatint and watercolor depicting a cactus-filled Mexican garden, a mirror tilted up and an image of the artist s...
Category
2010s Contemporary Jenny Toth Art
Materials
Paper, Ink, Archival Ink, Aquatint, Watercolor
Fishy Tales, colorful brushwork, animals, female nude mermaid reference
By Jenny Toth
Located in Brooklyn, NY
This is an oil painting with most parts made from observing from life in Brier Island, Nova Scotia. Two mermaids interacting in a mysterious way, the viewer seems to have interrupted...
Category
2010s Contemporary Jenny Toth Art
Materials
Oil
Boba Fett vs. Artist Mom, colorful painting in mirror w suit of armor
By Jenny Toth
Located in Brooklyn, NY
This is an oil painting done from life with the artist's young son''s life-size poster of Boba Fett behind her.
Known for painting fantastical, sometimes self-reflective narrative s...
Category
2010s Contemporary Jenny Toth Art
Materials
Cotton Canvas, Oil
Ho-Humming with a Turtle and a Crown, female nude, giraffe, bold paint, animals
By Jenny Toth
Located in Brooklyn, NY
This is an oil painting done from life of woman, maybe a queen, wearing a crown with an antelope head mounted on the wall behind her, and two turtles in the foreground. She looks a ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Jenny Toth Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Belly Energy, colorful nude in mirror w animals elephant lion
By Jenny Toth
Located in Brooklyn, NY
This is an oil painting done from life with a woman looking in the mirror with energy radiating from her belly and looking like she has an ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Jenny Toth Art
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Mexican Romance, wild brightly colored female nude w surreal elements
By Jenny Toth
Located in Brooklyn, NY
This is an oil painting done observed from life and including Mexican folk art masks, a portrait of a Mexican man and his hat on the other side, and a woma...
Category
2010s Contemporary Jenny Toth Art
Materials
Thread, Oil
Bulls, Skulls, and Tears, monochromatic linear animals bones
By Jenny Toth
Located in Brooklyn, NY
This is an artist proof (one of a kind) etching of a woman peaking behind a bull's skull with other live bulls dancing around behind. The work has movement and a feeling of a circle...
Category
2010s Contemporary Jenny Toth Art
Materials
Paper, Ink, Archival Ink, Etching
Donkey Boogie Woogie, limited color mixed media woman animals
By Jenny Toth
Located in Brooklyn, NY
This is drawing made with pen, pencil and watercolor on wood done from life of donkeys the artist observed in Mexico, and cacti, and a woman holding up the hoof of one donkey. Whims...
Category
2010s Contemporary Jenny Toth Art
Materials
Pencil, Archival Paper, Watercolor, Ballpoint Pen
Feeling Prickly
By Jenny Toth
Located in Brooklyn, NY
This is an artist proof (one of a kind) etching of a woman with a cactus growing in and out of her. Whimsical and both funny and thoughtful, the composition is both rhythmic and pow...
Category
2010s Contemporary Jenny Toth Art
Materials
Paper, Ink, Archival Ink, Etching
Multiple Reflections w/ a cup of Joe, contemporary, pink, blue, female, cubist
By Jenny Toth
Located in Brooklyn, NY
This is an oil painting done from life of the artist standing at her easel, holding a shiny knife vertically which is capturing her likeness, and the entire images is captured in a l...
Category
2010s Contemporary Jenny Toth Art
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Toys in Basket, colorful whimsical childhood oil painting
By Jenny Toth
Located in Brooklyn, NY
This is an oil painting done observed from life painted by a new mother of a few toys in a straw basket.
Known for painting fantastical, sometimes self-reflective narrative scenes...
Category
2010s Contemporary Jenny Toth Art
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Naked with Cactus and dog in the Mexican Living Room
By Jenny Toth
Located in Brooklyn, NY
This is an artist proof aquatint of a woman stepping forward in a tiled Mexican living room with her dog and a mysterious giant cactus coming out of the floor. Image is 9.75 x 9.75 ...
Category
2010s Feminist Jenny Toth Art
Materials
Aquatint, Paper, Ink
Child's Visions of City Living, bright blues, colorful, childlike happy
By Jenny Toth
Located in Brooklyn, NY
This is an oil painting done from life of based on a diorama created from a little boy's drawings.
Known for painting fantastical, sometimes self-reflective narrative scenes with a ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Jenny Toth Art
Materials
Cotton Canvas, Oil
Ducks Quacking, Cactus Peeking, linear style, monochromatic
By Jenny Toth
Located in Brooklyn, NY
This is an artist proof aquatint of a woman peeking around a cactus with ducks mysteriously hovering in the upper right corner and a giant beautiful cactus overgrowing. The mood is ...
Category
2010s Expressionist Jenny Toth Art
Materials
Paper, Ink, Archival Ink, Aquatint
Donkey Menagerie, mixed media on wood panel
By Jenny Toth
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Watercolor, pencil, and pen on wood
Category
2010s American Modern Jenny Toth Art
Materials
Wood, Watercolor, Pen, Pencil
Beak to Beak, figures birds fire escape mixed media collage w etching urban
By Jenny Toth
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Watercolor and cut paper collage w/ etching of staircase. Dream scape fire escape imagery
Category
2010s Surrealist Jenny Toth Art
Materials
Paper, Watercolor, Mixed Media
If Dogs Had Arms, colorful hand painted etching one of a kind
By Jenny Toth
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Etching and watercolor, ideal for special gift
Category
2010s Surrealist Jenny Toth Art
Materials
Etching, Watercolor
Artist in a Birch Tree, blues greens Nova Scotia mirror nature gestural patterns
By Jenny Toth
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Colorful oil painting by Jenny Toth, by MFA Yale 1988 graduate, current professor at Wagner College
Category
2010s Jenny Toth Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Artist and Model, colorful nude male dog monoprint chine colle
By Jenny Toth
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Woodcut and hand-painted paper collage
Category
Early 2000s Expressionist Jenny Toth Art
Materials
Paper, Archival Ink, Mixed Media
Leashed and Unleashed, dogs collage abstracted drawing color
By Jenny Toth
Located in Brooklyn, NY
This remarkable aquatint print handpainted and collaged with watercolor depicts dogs actively engaged in friendly play in a desert landscape. Leashes fly outside the square composit...
Category
2010s American Modern Jenny Toth Art
Materials
Watercolor, Aquatint, Archival Paper
Shutting Out Self Doubt, hand tinted etching of cat woman nude, music instrument
By Jenny Toth
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Aquatint and watercolor collage by Jenny Toth, mixed media artist, professor, graduate of Yale School of Art
Category
2010s Contemporary Jenny Toth Art
Materials
Watercolor, Aquatint, Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Etching
Eying the Om, colorful imaginative mixed media, woman antelope, eyes, rabbit
By Jenny Toth
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Known for painting fantastical, anxiety-ridden narrative scenes with a touch of humor, Jenny Toth works from direct observation, sometimes with the aid of elaborate set-ups and props...
Category
2010s Feminist Jenny Toth Art
Materials
Mixed Media, Acrylic, Archival Paper
?Inner Defenses and Fences, mixed media cut paper and etching, nude, dog
By Jenny Toth
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Inner Defenses and Fences, mixed media cut paper and etching, nude, dog
Known for painting fantastical, anxiety-ridden narrative scenes with a touch of humor, Jenny Toth works from ...
Category
2010s Feminist Jenny Toth Art
Materials
Paper, Ink, Etching
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