Jered Sprecher - The Moth (oil on paper with wooden frame, 16" x 12" paper or 17" x 13" with frame, 2018)
I make paintings that exist 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. There is something elegant and tragic about the evanescent light of the screen burning the image of a delicate flower into one’s memory. Light, flower, and technology are here and also fade away.
I make paintings that exist 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. There is something elegant and tragic about the evanescent light of the screen burning the image of a delicate flower into one’s memory. Light, flower, and technology are here and also fade away.
I make paintings that exist 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. There is something elegant and tragic about the evanescent light of the screen burning the image of a delicate flower into one’s memory. Light, flower, and technology are here and also fade away.