Creator Record
Images
Metadata
Name |
Sprecher, Jered |
Dates & places of birth and death |
Lincoln, Nebraska 1976; lives and works in Knoxville |
Nationality |
American |
Notes |
Sprecher, who teaches painting at the University of Tennessee’s School of Art, approaches his medium in ways that defy traditional notions of imagery, process, and pictorial space. His paintings present unlikely combinations of images from high and low visual cultures, whether motifs from famous paintings, architectural blueprints, or graffiti scrawls on a wall near his studio. Their original meaning and associations are often subdued, altered or lost in favor of their new role as formal devices. The richly textured surfaces of Sprecher’s paintings are the result of his method of applying multiple layers of paint with brushes as well as spray cans. The artist also applies tape and stencils to the surface of his canvases to create precise edges that contrast sharply with loosely brushed or sprayed pigment. The resulting angular planes of color draw the eye into a fragmented, ambiguous pictorial space that appears shallow in certain areas while infinitely deep in others. Sprecher, who teaches painting at the University of Tennessee’s School of Art, approaches his medium in ways that defy traditional notions of imagery, process, and pictorial space. His paintings present unlikely combinations of images from high and low visual cultures, whether motifs from famous paintings, architectural blueprints, or graffiti scrawls on a wall near his studio. Their original meaning and associations are often subdued, altered or lost in favor of their new role as formal devices. The richly textured surfaces of Sprecher’s paintings are the result of his method of applying multiple layers of paint with brushes as well as spray cans. The artist also applies tape and stencils to the surface of his canvases to create precise edges that contrast sharply with loosely brushed or sprayed pigment. The resulting angular planes of color draw the eye into a fragmented, ambiguous pictorial space that appears shallow in certain areas while infinitely deep in others. |
