Thursday, November 20
6-7 pm | Robineau Gallery & Sculpture Court
Free with Pay-What-You-Wish Admission
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.
Jake Troyli
Open Season, 2025
Oil on canvas, 78 x 78 inches
Everson Museum of Art; Museum purchase, Friends of the Everson, 2025.7
Jake Troyli
The Chorus, 2025
Oil on canvas, 32 x 60 inches
Courtesy of the artist and Monique Meloche Gallery
Photo: Bob
Jake Troyli: Open Season is made possible with support from the Allyn Family Foundation. The Everson is supported by the Dorothy and Marshall M. Reisman Foundation; the General Operating Support program, a regrant program of the County of Onondaga with the support of County Executive, J. Ryan McMahon II, and the Onondaga County Legislature, administered by CNY Arts; and the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the Office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature.
