THE FOCUS

Jered Sprecher, Looking for the Eye, 2022, oil on canvas, 72 x 80 inches, photo by Bruce Cole, courtesy the artist and Ferrara Showman Gallery Anna Mages: In a statement from your show at Tri-Star’s Candoro Marble Building, you discuss your work as exploring the “precarious relationship between nature and technology.” The way that you describe this relationship recalls the theme of “nature v. nurture.” Do you see these relationships as part of the same conversation? Jered Sprecher: Those are definitely related to that. W...

Rachel Bubis: After developing your drawing skills for many years, you decided to shift away from realism which you’ve described as an “escape velocity.” What led to that moment, and how did it transform the direction of your work? Was it over time or suddenly? Lain York: It happened fairly quickly coming out of university. I was looking for a particular immediacy for what I was doing. Ideas were coming quickly and I found myself moving away from what I thou...

Rachel Bubis: You’ve been working in Tennessee for quite some time. How has your practice evolved over the years? Carl E. Moore: I moved to Memphis to go to college, so I’ve actually lived in Tennessee longer than I lived in my hometown. So my practice has changed over a 40 span, all the way from college to now. When I started at MCA I was a realist painting using oils. After college, I took a 5 year hiatus to rede...