Jered Sprecher, a professor in the University of Tennessee’s School of Art, describes his artwork as existing in the “sliver of space between abstraction and representation.”

“I look to the lived daily experience of the present coupled with the artifacts of the past. My work compresses time into the surface of painting, that old technology. Increasingly flora, fauna, and natural phenomena hold my attention, as I wrestle with this imagery that we daily experience through our technology,” he says.