Gestural line has been a feature of Jill Moser’s work for 30 years. According to a statement on her website, she has “conceived a language of drawing, painting, and printmaking that resists figuration to celebrate visual narratives.”
That visual language provides half the content of “Talking Pictures: Collaborations,” her just-published image/text catalog that features 40 responses to as many of her artworks.
Moser will be at East Hampton’s LongHouse Reserve on Saturday at 3 p.m. for a reading of the book by a group of contributors including Elena Karina Byrne, Ágnes Berecz, Lila Zemborain, Star Black, David Lichtenstein, Corinne Erni, Alison Mitchell, and Moser. The reading will be accompanied by a video and be followed by a conversation with Moser. The presentation will show how ekphrasis — a written, detailed description of a work of visual art — extends beyond its definition and reflects how individuals respond to and translate works of art.
Moser asked 40 friends and colleagues to create a dialogue with one of her painted collages. Those collaborators — poets, artists, journalists, critics, curators, historians, and psychoanalysts — “form a chorus, playing along the border between the visual and the verbal,” according to LongHouse.
Among those contributors, in addition to those named above, are Tiffany Bell, Charles Bernstein, Jon Bowermaster, Barbara Bloemink, Giuliana Bruno, Jesse Browner, Lee Eiferman, Aniko Erdosi, Stephen Frailey, Laurence Hegarty, Christopher French, Mary Heilmann, David Humphrey, Didi Jackson, Major Jackson, Susan Lewis, Mary Lucier, Tim Maul, Milos Zahradka Maiorana, Jennifer McGregor, Sarah Greenberg Morse, Paul Muldoon, Eric Pankey, Anne Plettener, Nancy Princenthal, Manya Steinkoler, Laurie Sheck, Adam Simon, Chase Twichell, Terrie Sultan, Eliza Walton, Stephen Westfall, Lilly Wei, and Karen Wilkin.
Moser’s paintings, drawings, prints, and artist’s books have been exhibited in galleries and museums throughout the United States and Europe. She is represented in the collections of 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, and the Fogg Museum, Cambridge, Mass., among others.
Tickets are $35, $25 for members.
