Jake Troyli
Photo by Kay Hickman
Jake Troyli creates energetic paintings that examine spectacle, commodification, and the construction of performance and identity.
Working in a classicist style, his exaggerated, elasticized figures often symbolize the pressures of code-switching and the blurred line between subject and object. Troyli uses theatrical scene-setting to explore identity, value, and representation, using exaggerated perspective and slapstick humor to destabilize institutional narratives of belonging and success.
Brooklyn, NY
Born 1990, Boston, MA
2019 Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, Skowhegan, ME
2019 MFA University of South Florida, Tampa, FL
2013 BA Lincoln Memorial University, Harrogate, TN