Born in Whiteplains, New York, in 1956, Jill Moser is a New York-based artist whose etchings, lithographs, paintings, drawings, collages and artist's books explore the intersections of painting, writing and the moving image.As a young adult, it was cinema that led her to painting, as she traveled to New York from the inner suburbs to watch films at the Anthology Film Archives; a "meditative, non-narrative way of looking, / . / an evocative experience of looking without language," she...

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  Born in Whiteplains, New York, in 1956, Jill Moser is a New York-based artist whose etchings, lithographs, paintings, drawings, collages and artist's books explore the intersections of painting, writing and the moving image.
  As a young adult, it was cinema that led her to painting, as she traveled to New York from the inner suburbs to watch films at the Anthology Film Archives; a "meditative, non-narrative way of looking, / . / an evocative experience of looking without language," she says.
  As a young woman, she graduated from Brown University in 1978 and received the Max Beckmann Fellowship in Painting from the Brooklyn Museum. She obtained her MFA from Hunter College in 1981. From 1981 to 1991, she was Associate Director for the Arts at the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs.
  Jill Moser has been a faculty member at Princeton University, Virginia Commonwealth University, SUNY New Paltz, SUNY Empire State College and the School of Visual Arts, and has lectured extensively throughout the United States. His work has been exhibited in galleries and museums in the U.S. and Europe, and is part of important public and private collections.
  Since the 1980s, Jill Moser has been expanding and rewriting the legacy of gestural abstraction. Engaged with the work of choreographers and filmmakers such as Maya Deren, Stan Brakhage and Teresa De Keersmaeker, as well as women artists such as Lynda Benglis and Joan Mitchell, her paintings, drawings and collages address the relationship between creative practices, performative gestures, the passage of time and the body in movement."Improvisation plays an important role in my work, but my decisions are not random. As a painting or drawing develops, it gradually reveals its own logic and position. This suggests certain possibilities that I then work with," she says.In her in-depth work with engravers, the artist studies gestural cues and colors, and remedies the link between the handmade and the mechanical. She has created numerous editions with Jungle Press, Manneken Press, Brand X, Burnet Editions and others.More recently, her gestural repertoire has found new forms and media in collaborative projects with poets, artists and designers/architects.Many important museums have works by Jill Moser in their collections (Arkansas Art Center, Achenbach Foundation San Francisco, Art Institute of Chicago, Brooklyn, Houston and Harvard Museums, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Moma, Washington National Gallery of Art, Smithsonian, Bibliothèque nationale de France, etc.).
  
  

  

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