"Modern Art is pleased to present Polygrapher, the first solo exhibition by Joseph Yaeger since announcing his representation by the gallery, and the inaugural exhibition at their Bennet Street gallery. Polygrapher denotes both the exhibition title and a text written by the artist, published in the exhibition's accompanying booklet. Taking the form of an interrogation the artist underwent attached to a Stoelting UltraScribe--and in which only the answers have been transcribed--it creates a framework for the experience of the subsequent paintings."
"The paintings in the exhibition are produced with watercolour on thickly gessoed canvas or linen. Yaeger values the materiality of the pockmarked and textured gesso in addition to the vicissitudes of the watercolour pigment. His compositions are typically cropped, both revealing and curtailing the viewer's encounter with a scene, fostering an atmosphere of emotional and spatial ambiguity. While Yaeger's writing practice evokes these phantasmatic spaces, the paintings in the exhibition attempt to grasp what language cannot convey."
Polygrapher is Joseph Yaeger's first solo exhibition at the Bennet Street gallery following his new gallery representation. The title also names a printed interrogation in which only the subject's answers were recorded, forming a framework for viewing the paintings. The works are watercolour on heavily gessoed canvas or linen, foregrounding pockmarked, textured gesso and the shifting behavior of pigment. Compositions are cropped to both reveal and curtail scenes. Props such as masks, paint, screens, taped goggles, debris and foam deliberately obscure subjects, producing emotional and spatial ambiguity that resists verbal description.
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