About The Work
Jill Moser is a New York-based abstract painter whose practice often explores the dialogue between painting and printmaking. Moser’s vocabulary is rooted in gestural line that at first appears spontaneous and immediate, but belies the manipulation, blotting, redrawing, and fixing that are at its core. Her gestural brushstrokes seem at once violent and poetic, capturing the energy and gesture of her signature calligraphic line caught and held in a quiet equilibrium. These new prints, created during her first collaboration with Wingate Studio, are a radical departure for Moser in her use of a highly charged, vibrantly saturated color palette that reverses the figure/ground relationship with which she typically works.
While at Wingate Studio, the artist developed a process in which she painted directly on the copper plate with white ground, allowing her time to work, look, and rework by wiping away areas, diluting the ground with water, over-painting, and sculpting this paste-like mixture. When the plate was etched and printed, the white ground brushstrokes became negative open space. By printing a flat color plate beneath the form, Moser was able to explore the possibilities for altering positive/negative space, balancing the form in a tight relationship with the space it inhabits. Other marks and lines were then added, using spit bite and sugar lift ground—both painterly techniques—to expand on and reinforce the composition.
About Jill Moser
Soap ground, sugar lift, aquatint
19.00 x 18.00 in
48.3 x 45.7 cm
This work comes with Print Documentation describing the materials, process, printer and publisher. This work is signed, numbered, and dated by the artist beneath the plate mark, and has Wingate Studio's press chop in the bottom right corner on verso.
About The Work
Jill Moser is a New York-based abstract painter whose practice often explores the dialogue between painting and printmaking. Moser’s vocabulary is rooted in gestural line that at first appears spontaneous and immediate, but belies the manipulation, blotting, redrawing, and fixing that are at its core. Her gestural brushstrokes seem at once violent and poetic, capturing the energy and gesture of her signature calligraphic line caught and held in a quiet equilibrium. These new prints, created during her first collaboration with Wingate Studio, are a radical departure for Moser in her use of a highly charged, vibrantly saturated color palette that reverses the figure/ground relationship with which she typically works.
While at Wingate Studio, the artist developed a process in which she painted directly on the copper plate with white ground, allowing her time to work, look, and rework by wiping away areas, diluting the ground with water, over-painting, and sculpting this paste-like mixture. When the plate was etched and printed, the white ground brushstrokes became negative open space. By printing a flat color plate beneath the form, Moser was able to explore the possibilities for altering positive/negative space, balancing the form in a tight relationship with the space it inhabits. Other marks and lines were then added, using spit bite and sugar lift ground—both painterly techniques—to expand on and reinforce the composition.
About Jill Moser
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