Jill Moser
dal 31/10/2007 al 7/12/2007
Segnalato da
31/10/2007
Jill Moser
Lennon Weinberg Gallery, New York
New Paintings. The artist lays down lines of a single color on a pure white ground and realizes compositions both taut and at ease. The lines are swift yet stilled, fixed and embedded in the residue of a process of erasure and adjustment.
New Paintings
Jill Moser’s paintings are deceptively lucid and satisfyingly
complex. She lays down lines of a single color on a pure
white ground and realizes compositions both taut and at
ease. The lines are swift yet stilled, fixed and embedded in
the residue of a process of erasure and adjustment.
Incremental marks and events of the hand establish an
environment in which the usual relationship of figure to
ground becomes indeterminate. The deep space carved by
Moser’s looping, repeating, rhythmic line punctures the
ground and establishes a velvety void at the areas where
lines converge and give over their identity as line to form.
The paintings establish a depth of field that Moser has explored in paintings, drawings, photographs,
monotypes and etchings. Her exploration of the potential of each medium has generated challenges
for her in the others and her exhibitions in New York and elsewhere have demonstrated the range and
momentum of her development. Moser described in a recent interview:
All of my work comes out of drawing and concerns itself with the possibilities associated with
drawing. I worked exclusively in that medium for many years, using all kinds of marking materials on
translucent mylar. Through that work I developed an understanding of mark making and line that I
have brought to all of my subsequent work. In painting I wanted to find a way of keeping the
immediacy of line alive, to retain what Guston called “the bareness of drawing, how it locates,
suggests and discovers.” The physicality of painting, working on a stretched canvas with the
materiality of paint is altogether different from marking with chalk or oil stick on a sheet of mylar or
paper. It insists on a slower, more deliberate attention to making. This sets up the field between
drawing and painting that I have been investigating ever since. What remains important in both is
that the image is active in the process of describing itself.
This is Jill Moser’s first exhibition at Lennon, Weinberg. During the last decade her work has been
exhibited in London, Atlanta, Boston, Phoenix and early this year in Houston; this is her first solo
show of paintings in New York since 1998. Her paintings and works on paper are included in
museum collections such as the Museum of Modern Art, the Metropolitan, the Art Institute of
Chicago, the Fogg, the Weatherspoon, and the Museum of Fine Arts in Houston.
Opens Thursday, November 1, 6-8 pm
Lennon Weinberg Gallery
514 West 25 Street - New York
Tuesday-Saturday 10am-6pm
Free admission