Beneath the Surface I by Tayo Medium: Oil and acrylics Dimensions: 120 x 140 cm Year: 2026 Price: $1200.00 USD Status: available A carefully rendered face is repeatedly covered, framed and interrupted by white planes, black gestures and architectural lines. Visibility becomes unstable: one eye meets the viewer while the other is almost erased. The work examines how identity is edited by expectation, memory and self-protection. What appears incomplete is not absent; it continues beneath the painted surface, resisting a single, finished reading. Why collect this work?Beneath the Surface I offers a focused way to encounter Tayo's practice through a specific work and its recorded materials. Tayo's practice is described through My paintings begin with the face and the body, but I am less interested in likeness than in what pressure reveals. Water, fractured planes, animals, flowers and moving lines are not decorative; they operate as signs of memory, fragility, protection and change..A carefully rendered face is repeatedly covered, framed and interrupted by white planes, black gestures and architectural lines. Visibility becomes unstable: one eye meets the viewer while the other is almost erased. The work examines how identity is edited by expectation, memory and self-protection. What appears incomplete is not absent; it continues beneath the painted surface, resisting a single, finished reading.The recorded technique or medium is Oil and acrylics.At 120 x 140 cm, it can be considered for collections that have room for a work of this scale. About the ArtistTayo Nationality: Nigerian My paintings begin with the face and the body, but I am less interested in likeness than in what pressure reveals.
