Joseph Yaeger

Joseph Yaeger (b. 1986) He graduated with a BFA from the Rhode Island School of Design (USA) in 2008 and subsequently earned his MA in Painting from the Royal College of Art (London) in 2019. Joseph Yaeger's paintings are characterised by his unique use of watercolour on thickly primed canvas -  applying the watercolour at speed and expressively. Sourcing his imagery from film stills, his own photography, stock images and news media. Yaeger is constantly seeking to understand his attraction to a chosen image, simultaneously, in the resulting painting he seeks to displace and locate the image somewhere entirely new, a constant process of actively 'dissolving context'. As Yaeger notes "..the subject of the painting then is in many ways its act-the painting itself evidence of whatever was discovered within the image.
 
Yaeger's recent selected exhibitions include:  Josepf Yaeger. Time Weft, The Perimeter Gallery London, UK (2023); A Mimetic Theory of Desire, David Lewis New York, USA (2022); Just A Second, Antenna Space, Shanghai, China; Doublespeak, Project Native Informant London, UK (2021) ; after Image, MAMOTH, London, UK (2020); The Writer, Project Native Informant, London, UK (online) (2020); Power Ballads, VO Curations, London, UK (2020) and among others.