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Artist |
Sprecher, Jered |
Title |
A Plane is a Pocket in the Corners of the Mind |
Medium |
painting / oil |
Date |
2014 |
Description |
Jered Sprecher (Lincoln Nebraska 1976; lives and works in Knoxville) A Plane is a Pocket in the Corners of the Mind, 2014 Oil on canvas 8 x 20 feet Knoxville Museum of Art, 2021 purchase with funds provided by KMA Collectors Circle Knoxville-based Jered Sprecher is among a generation of contemporary painters exploring the creative territory between figuration and abstraction, and between the handmade and the digital. He describes himself as a "hunter and gatherer" who draws inspiration from an eclectic array of image sources including graffiti, architecture, cut gemstones, family photographs, and ancient frescoes. Computers, copiers, and printers enable him to acquire and prepare selected images beforehand, in some cases cropping and filtering them to the point at which they become ghostly remnants of the original. He then transfers them to canvas inch-by-inch and layer by layer in translucent veils, stenciled grids, feathered stripes, irregular dabs, and serpentine drips. |
Catalog Number |
2021.10.01 |
Credit line |
purchase with funds provided by KMA Collectors Circle |