Original artwork by artist BAYO
INTERFERENCE explores the unstable space between perception and identity, where thoughts, instincts, and emotions overlap, collide, and distort one another. Through fragmented figures, altered bodies, and shifts between realism and abstraction, the work examines how perception fractures, bends, and reconfigures under internal pressure. Each image becomes a site of tension, where clarity remains elusive and meaning is continually negotiated.
Rather than seeking resolution, the work embraces collision as its underlying structure. Interference is not presented as an obstacle, but as a fundamental condition of being—shaped by competing impulses, fractured memories, emotional residue, and subconscious forces. Within this space, identity emerges not through certainty, but through disruption.
The title refers to the constant noise of consciousness: memory, anxiety, desire, doubt, and instinct competing for attention.
INTERFERENCE reflects the ways internal disruption influences perception, behavior, and self-understanding, revealing identity as something fluid, unstable, and continuously reconstructed.
INTERFERENCE
Join us for the fourth art exhibition of 2026, featuring a Portland-based artist
BAYO
Opening Reception:
Thursday, June 25, 2026
6:00 PM – 9:00 PM
About
Bayo
Born in Mexico City in 1976, Bayo is a Mexican visual artist and award-winning Art Director based in Portland, Oregon. Over the past two decades, he has cultivated a dual practice spanning commercial design and fine art, leading creative work for brands and institutions across Mexico and the United States while exhibiting his drawings, paintings, and sculptural works in galleries throughout the United States, Belgium, Spain, and Germany.
Working across realism, symbolism, and surrealism, Bayo explores the emotional and psychological forces that shape human experience. His work investigates the tension between reason and impulse, order and disruption, examining themes of identity, memory, self-sabotage, frustration, and transformation. Through fragmented figures, symbolic narratives, and dreamlike imagery, he creates visual spaces where internal contradictions are not resolved but revealed, inviting viewers to reflect on the complex and often unstable nature of perception, behavior, and selfhood.
