The Todd Art Gallery at Middle Tennessee State University welcomes a fascinating cacophony of color to its cool, calm exhibit space with its exhibit Summer Noise, on display through Saturday, Sept. 11.

University of Tennessee School of Art professor Jered Sprecher’s work includes massive 20-foot paintings that incorporate oils, wool rugs and paper alongside striking tabletop installations with drawings, fossils, copper wire and even a robin’s egg.

The Summer Noise exhibit will be open in the Todd’s spacious main gallery, Room 224A, located in the heart of the MTSU campus at 542 Old Main Cir. weekdays from 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. and Saturdays 11 a.m. to 4 p.m., free to the public.

Sprecher also will serve as a visiting artist for MTSU students on Thursday, Sept. 2, and his keynote talk at noon that day in Room 224A will be open to the public. An hour-long reception at 1 p.m. will follow his talk.

8.25 Minutes 2, one of six 76″ x 56″ oil on linen paintings, wool rug, hanging hardware, tape, printed materials, and drawings on paper comprising an installation by Knoxville artist Jered Sprecher

The 2009 Guggenheim Fellow and 2019 recipient of the Tennessee Arts Commission’s Individual Artist Fellowship uses both his phone and a digital camera to capture images that he uses as inspiration and sometimes includes directly in his work.

He says his paintings “extract elements from the high and low of visual culture. This culture and crush of images is in constant flux,” the Knoxville, Tennessee, resident says. “In our day-to-day life, one is seldom afforded the time to comprehend what one is viewing under the barrage of images produced by humankind. I try to grasp a single moment, a glance, a small epiphany.”

For more information about Sprecher and his work, visit jeredsprecher.com.

For more information on the MTSU Department of Art and Design and the Todd Art Gallery, contact Eric Snyder at 615-898-5532 or eric.snyder@mtsu.edu.