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Born 1976 in Lincoln, Nebraska, USA
Jered Sprecher is at the forefront of a new generation of abstract painters who are revitalizing the practice. While much abstract painting of the past decade has focused on design and surface, Sprecher makes paintings that privilege the hand and intuition. Hovering tenuously in a space between abstraction and representation, Sprecher’s paintings seem to emerge from an intense struggle with the activity of painting itself; in some ways, this struggle defines the content of his paintings.
Not wishing to be constrained by any single reading, Sprecher considers the meaning of his paintings to be open ended – they are, if fact, all “unfinished” parts of a continuing narrative. To this end, he feels free to draw from a variety of painting styles as he adapts and re-contextualizes the various “images” that he hunts and gathers.
Sprecher earned his MFA at the University of Iowa in 2002, and he is currently an Assistant Professor at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. Recent and upcoming solo exhibitions include shows at Jeff Bailey Gallery in New York City and Kinkead Contemporary in Los Angeles. Sprecher is the recipient of a 2009 Guggenheim Fellowship.
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