Gallery Talk with Artist Jake Troyli

Name: Gallery Talk with Artist Jake Troyli
Start: 2025-11-20T18:00:00-05:00
End: 2025-11-20T19:00:00-05:00
Location: Everson Museum of Art

Schedule

Thu Nov 20 2025 at 06:00 pm to 07:00 pm

UTC-05:00

Location

Everson Museum of Art | Syracuse, NY

Join artist Jake Troyli for a special gallery talk in celebration of the featured exhibition Jake Troyli: Open Season.
Fusing the technical rigor of Renaissance painting with the absurdity of modern spectacle, Troyli constructs surreal, narrative-driven worlds that interrogate the performance of identity and the commodification of the Black/Brown body. A former Division I basketball player, Troyli draws on personal experience navigating systems where physicality becomes currency and selfhood a staged performance. His avatars-elongated, costumed, and eerily composed-inhabit theatrical spaces that mimic battlegrounds, courtrooms, and community theater stages, blurring the line between satire and sincerity. In this newest work, Troyli expands his cast of figures to complicate binaries of hero and villain, participant and prop, inviting viewers into a charged meditation on labor, agency, and the exhaustion of endless performance.
Open discussion and light refreshments to follow. Free with Pay-What-You-Wish admission.
https://everson.org/connect/gallery-talk-with-artist-jake-troyli/