JERED SPRECHER

Jered Sprecher, based in Knoxville, TN, creates paintings that exist in a sliver of space between abstraction and representation. His work compresses time into the surface of painting. Flora, fauna, and natural phenomena confront technological motifs, seen through hard lines and repetition, that dart through Sprecher’s compositions. Birds, plants, flowers, stones, and fires dissolve into the light of the screen, the digital lens, and the glowing tablet.

His work is based in an eclectic aesthetic, extracting elements from low and high visual culture. This culture and the crush of images is in constant flux. Sprecher’s paintings hold no single allegiance but are constantly shifting from one form of representation to another. The paintings function as sources of both inductive and deductive image-making processes. In our day-to-day lives, one is seldom afforded the time to comprehend what one is viewing under the barrage of images produced by humankind. I try to grasp a single moment, a glance, a small epiphany. The paintings are haptic documents of these remnants of communication as each one follows its trajectory.

Jered Sprecher received his MFA from the University of Iowa. He currently teaches Painting and Drawing at the University of Tennessee Knoxville. Sprecher has been an artist-in-residence at the Irish Museum of Modern Art, the Chinati Foundation, and the Marie Walsh Sharpe Space Program in New York. In 2009, he was the recipient of a John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship. His work has been included in exhibitions at The Drawing Center, Brooklyn Academy of Music, Urban Institute for Contemporary Arts, Irish Museum of Modern Art, The Chinati Foundation, Espai d’Art Contemporani de Castelló, Weatherspoon Art Museum, Hunter Museum, and the Knoxville Museum of Art.