Chroma High, the suite of monoprints that emerged from a December week at Oehme Graphics, takes the form language and saturated color dynamics of my recent paintings to another plane. In the recent paintings, vivid chromatic tones insist on and animate form. Color is celebrated as essential to the shape it takes. Working in winter in the mountains, my palette took on deeper tones of violets, yellows and pinks, reflective of the play of light in the landscape.Unexpected tonal and compositional shifts of color and form came from the immediacy of the monoprint. With each new project, I continue to explore what is unique to the printmaking process. How it asks that you strip down the constructive parts of an image, slowing down and revealing the performative aspects of its making. I’m intrigued by how the monoprint records both the structure and the event and makes them visible. -Jill Moser, 2022
Jill Moser is an artist whose work explores the intersections of painting, writing, and the animated image. Her paintings, drawings, prints, and artist’s books have been exhibited in galleries and museums throughout the United States and Europe, 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 Museum, and The National Library of France. She has worked collaboratively on projects with poets, artists, designers, and architects including Charles Bernstein, Laurie Sheck, Major Jackson and Anna Maria Hong. She has also made numerous print editions and series, most recently with Oehme Graphics, Manneken Press and Jungle Press. Moser has taught at Princeton University, Virginia Commonwealth University, SUNY, and The School of Visual Arts and lectured across the United States. She lives and works in New York.
