Jay Batlle

Jay Batlle is an performer born in 1976, who received his Bachelor of Arts from UCLA in 1998. He went to the Ateliers in Amsterdam from 1998 to 2000. Batlle's "epicurean" paintings, drawings, and sculptures take the habits of the gourmet as a source of inspiration and social commentary. His oeuvre offers both a critique of comestible-related decadence and a celebration of the preparation and consumption of food across various cultures.

A skilled chef as competently as an artist, Batlle's layered compositions often incorporate images and text from the food section of publications such as the New Yorker and the New York Times or stationery from restaurants vis-а-vis the world, as skillfully as fragments of recipes, sketches, photographs, and additional found objects. The resulting works are often the end off subsequent to coffee grounds, wine, and additional food stains.

The artist's acquit yourself examines "the good life"—success, fortune, and sensual pleasure—and the chasm that exists together with this idealized liveliness and reality. His fake asks whether the tapering off of art is to achieve a top socioeconomic rank or comprehensibly to give ones livelihood. As he explains: “Even if it’s idealistic, or romantic, my achievement needs a pathos … an urgency, a problem.” For Batlle, this source is humanity’s fruitless aspirations to a vibrancy that we ultimately cannot attain, which he expresses in his put on an act through recurring imagery of women, glamorous parties, luxury brands and products, alcohol, food, and money.

Batlle’s doing has been exhibited at galleries and museums including Metro Pictures, the Chelsea Museum, Exit Art, The Dorsky Gallery in New York City, the Ausstellungshalle Zeitgenössische Kunst in Münster, (Germany), the National Museum of Fine Arts, Santiago de Chile, and at the Museum of Liverpool, United Kingdom. He is represented by 1000eventi gallery in Milan, Italy and works similar to Nyehaus, in New York and Clages, in Cologne.