Faculty
Marcia Goldenstein - Professor
Office: A+A 435C
Telephone: 865.974.9398
Email: mgoldens@utk.edu
Education:University of Nebraska - MFA
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"My work resides within the rich tradition of landscape painting and the variety of ways in which our environment is experienced and perceived. I vacillate between paintings that capture specific moments in time and space, and paintings that offer composite views with multiple images that reflect a more complex response. Extensive travel continues to increase my repertoire of personal places, but I often return to my roots in the Great Plains where the sky and prairie dominate. Another native of the plains, Willa Cather wrote, “It must have been the scarcity of detail in that tawny landscape that made detail so precious.” Painting the immensity of the space intrigues me as much as the precious details, giving substance to the layers of atmosphere and air. Within each painting I acknowledge both the historical context of the genre and my personal sense of place and belonging."
Marcia Goldenstein received her M.F.A. degree in Painting at the University of Nebraska. She has taught drawing and painting at the University of Tennessee since 1976. Her teaching experience also extends to summer programs at Arrowmont School of Arts and Crafts in Gatlinburg, TN and Summervail in Colorado and as a visiting artist at numerous institutions, including the National Academy of Fine Arts, Bratislava, Slovakia; Tudor Hall, Banbury, United Kingdom; Arts Council, St. Thomas, Virgin Islands; University of Texas, San Antonio; and University of Indianapolis. Her paintings have appeared in many solo and invitational exhibitions in the United States, Europe and China and are included in a variety of museum, corporate and private collections.
Jered Sprecher - Professor
Office: A+A 413D
Telephone: 865.974.9396
Email: jsprecher@utk.edu
Education: University of Iowa- MFA
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"My work is based in an eclectic aesthetic. My paintings extract elements from the high and low of visual culture. This culture and crush of images is in constant flux. My paintings hold no single allegiance, but are constantly shifting from one form of representation to another. The paintings function as sources of both inductive and deductive image making processes. 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. The paintings are haptic documents of these remnants of communication as each one follows its trajectory."
Jered Sprecher received his MFA from the University of Iowa. Sprecher has had solo exhibitions at Jeff Bailey Gallery in New York, Wendy Cooper Gallery in Chicago, Steven Zevitas Gallery in Boston, Kinkead Contemporary in Los Angeles, and the Art Gallery of Knoxville. His work has been included in exhibitions at venues such as The Drawing Center, Brooklyn Academy of Music, Urban Institute for Contemporary Arts, Indiana University, Irish Museum of Modern Art, and the Knoxville Museum of Art . Sprecher has participated in the Artist Residence Program at the Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin and the Marie Walsh Sharpe Space Program in New York. In 2009, he was the recipient of a John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship.
David Wilson - Professor
Office: A+A 213
Telephone: 865.974.3407
Email: dwilson@utk.edu
Education: University of California, San Diego - MFA
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Using unconventional materials and approaches, including collaboration and performance, David Wilson creates large temporary artworks, videos, and drawings. Wilson has shown his work internationally at Kunsthalle Basel and Kunstlerhaus Boswil in Switzerland, the Experimental Art Foundation and Performance Space in Australia, the Robert McDougal Gallery in New Zealand, and the Center for Icelandic Art, Reykjavik. He has had solo exhibitions in the United States including at the Southeastern Center For Contemporary Art, Old Dominion University, Auburn University, the Florida Center for Contemporary Art, and the Dietrich Jenny Gallery. His group exhibitions venues include the Nexus Contemporary Art Center, Spaces Art Gallery, The Mint Museum, Cheekwood Fine Arts Center, the University of California (San Diego), and Wake Forest University.
Wilson’s videos were selected for the Dallas Video Festival, the Sydney Underground Film Festival, Australia, the DigiFestival, Florence, Italy (juror’s special recognition) , and the Alternative Film and Video Festival, Belgrade, Serbia (award of significant achievement).
Wilson’s artwork has been featured in periodicals such as Schweizer Kunst and Art Papers and reviewed in newspapers including the Los Angeles Times and Newsday. Wilson has been artist-in-residence at the International Artist Exchange, Basel, Switzerland, SIM, Reykjavik, Iceland, and the Academy of Fine Art, Bratislava, Slovak Republic. He has also designed sets for the National Theater of the Deaf Children’s Theater that toured the U.S.
Wilson received his M.F.A. from the University of California at San Diego where he studied with Allan Kaprow, Italo Scanga, and Manny Farber.
Karla Wozniak - Assistant Professor
Office: A+A 413E
Telephone: 865.974.3219
Email: kwozniak@utk.edu
Education: Yale School of Art - MFA
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"My recent paintings and works on paper are based on places I visit around the United States. The spaces I depict are typically in transition. One may pass by them, barely registering their existence beyond the barrage of advertising that floods one's vision. I am fascinated by these in-between spaces, their architecture, strange juxtapositions, ironies, ugliness and beauty.
"My paintings are part documentary and part authored and imagined. When I travel, I take hundreds of digital photos to use as a reference. From these I cull images for specific works. Each painting represents many different views, all taken from a certain geographic area. In this recent work there are also less representational passages that play with color, shape and compositional and textural relationships. These abstract moments often teeter on the edge of representation and evoke surfaces, graphic advertising, lighting, weather and time of day. The complex compositions are meant to organize and synthesize disparate modes of depiction.
"Taking visual information from landscape as a jumping-off point, the paintings become personal and almost hallucinatory reinventions of a certain highway strip, rest stop or Main Street, rendering these mundane drive-by places specific and memorable."
Karla Wozniak received her MFA from the Yale School of Art and BFA from Rhode Island School of Design. Her recent exhibitions include two solo exhibitions at the Gregory Lind Gallery, San Francisco, CA (2011, 2008), and the Rebecca Ibel Gallery, Columbus, OH (2010). Recent group exhibitions include Bronx Calling, Bronx Museum of Art, Bronx, NY (2011); Weasel, Inman Gallery, Houston, TX (2010); Rhyme, Not Reason, curated by John Yau, Janet Kurnatowski Gallery, Brooklyn, NY (2010); and Brooklyn Redrawn, Brooklyn Historical Society, Brooklyn, NY(2009).
Wozniak's distinctions include a NYFA fellowship (2011), participation in the Artist in the Market Place, Bronx Museum (2011), a Marie Walsh Sharpe Space Program Grant (2009-10), two MacDowell Colony Fellowships (2005, 2007), and an Alice Kimball English Traveling Fellowship from the Yale School of Art (2005). Her work has been noted in a number of publications, including the Houston Chronicle, the Village Voice, Art Fag City and Harper's.