Gil Batle: Double Life — Gil Batle

Gallery Two solo presentation of Gil Batle's painted ceramic plates, described by the gallery as its first show devoted only to this body of work, following Hatched in Prison (2015), Re-Formed (2018) and a solo Independent Art Fair booth (2019). Batle (b. San Francisco, 1962, to Filipino parents) spent twenty years in and out of five California prisons and later moved to an island in the Philippines; the plates use blue acrylic on found white plates, with island animals, foliage, cages and blades in Blue Willow-style border compositions. Checklist works dated 2024–2026 include Bird Catcher, Cutler, Island Cage, Tethered, The Butcher and Eel Belt.