"Honesty is important to Yaeger, whose upbringing in the US in Helena, a town that he says ambitiously calls itself the capital of Montana, was as decent as it was unremarkable. We'd sit down for dinner together every night, we'd go to church every Sunday, we're polite almost to a fault, and traditional in almost all senses of the word."
"His prodigious work ethic is further evidence of a sound upbringing: when we meet in his studio, a week or so before the exhibition opens, the 17 paintings to be included in Polygrapher are long gone and the wall is covered instead with canvases headed for his New York gallery, Gladstone, next year. I work many, many months ahead, probably just as a way of dealing with my own anxieties, he says with a hefty dose of self-deprecation."
Polygrapher is a new exhibition of Joseph Yaeger's work at Modern Art's St James's gallery, comprising 17 watercolour-over-gesso paintings. Yaeger grew up in Helena, Montana, in a conventional, churchgoing household and developed a prodigious work ethic. He plans paintings meticulously, works many months ahead to manage anxiety, and also allows chance to shape outcomes. Early film ambitions ended due to management weaknesses; painting combines cinematic stillness with detailed hyperreal surfaces. Yaeger graduated from the Royal College of Art in 2019 and works on canvas or linen, achieving glossy, monumentally scaled images that resemble film stills from a distance.
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