Jill Moser’s recent work originates in the gestural line that has been her hallmark for thirty years. Gestures that capture the feeling of being caught in the act, caught as they are made, held in suspended animation. Moser has conceived a language of drawing, painting, and printmaking that resists figuration to celebrate visual narratives. While extending the legacy of gestural abstraction set out by women artists such as Joan Mitchell and Lynda Benglis, Moser’s body of work is also indebted to 70s avant-garde filmmakers and choreographers. She’s after intimate corporeal encounters that entice viewers to become active participants. By the late 2010s, Moser began her in-depth study of color, investigating the eroticism of vividly chromatic forms. With color as protagonist, a rhythmic string of metonymic relationships takes shape within more expansive spaces. This broader repertoire of gestural marks focuses on the haptics of surface and the emotional dynamics of color as it resonates with the interplay of line and form.By 2020, extreme political and cultural shifts led Moser to create a new atlas of images.
Expanding ideas central to her practice, Moser engages in numerous collaborations with writers, master printers, and other artists that inspire correspondences with new ideas and materials. Continued collaborations pull her work in new directions, generating work that features layered materials, where meaning follows the saturated color relationships between dialogic shapes and episodic acts of gesture.
Jill Moser's paintings, drawings, prints, and artist's books have been exhibited in galleries and museums throughout the United States and featured in prominent collections, including The Metropolitan Museum of Art, The Museum of Modern Art, The Museum of Fine Arts Houston, The National Gallery of Art, The Yale University Art Gallery, The Fogg Art Gallery and The National Library of France.
Moser has worked on numerous print editions with Jungle Press, Burnet Editions, Brand X, Manneken Press and Bleu Acier among others. She continues to work collaboratively on projects with poets, artists, designers, and architects. She has taught at Princeton University, Virginia Commonwealth University, SUNY and The School of Visual Arts. Jill Moser lives and works in New York.