Jered Sprecher

*image from http://www.jeredsprecher.com/

Jered Sprecher is currently an assistant professor here at The University of Tennessee, Knoxville. Before beginning teaching here, he earned his bachelor’s degree from The University of Nebraska. Once he achieved this goal, he went on to earn his MFA from the University of Iowa.

I chose to write about Mr. Sprecher because when I was searching through different pieces of artwork that was created here in Knoxville, I was fascinated by the use of all the different colors in the artwork pictured above.

Jered Sprecher is a painter who has executed several of his own exhibitions dating since 2005. He has also been featured in other exhibitions with other artists since 2002.

In order to view his work, you will have to observe it while it is displayed in an exhibition.  But from the looks of his website, a ticket to his exhibitions are highly coveted. This is based off of the numerous awards he has won. These include the Chinati Foundation’s, of Marfa, TX, 2013 Artist-in-Residence Award. He was also awarded the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship in 2009. These are just a couple of his accomplishments which are highlighted on his website.

Since 2015, he has not taken part in any exhibitions, partly because of his commitment to his teaching.