Bayo Park & Galleries is pleased to present our 2025 annual fall exhibition entitled, “A Sinful Fall – F – SaG-C” on October 24th & 25th from 6-8pm in Batavia, IA.

Bayo Park & Galleries is a unique 10 acre sculpture and art park owned by artists David & Reena Olaniyi in Jefferson County, IA.   The park is a living, hand-built Heavenly peace park, a continually growing, work-in-progress nestled between rural American corn and soyfields.  Every year, the couple opens the park for art lovers in their community to see/experience the development of their artistic expression in this dynamic social, political, economic, and creative environment.

The artistic experience at Bayo Park & Galleries is based on the idea that “Life is a Performance” where objects interact with objects in space due time.  All the objects and the artworks are born through the two artists’ daily interactions with life, land and material on the park, hence the title of this year’s show, “A Sinful Fall-F-SaG-C.”  The artists make art of power that speaks, powering the world, performing life.  The art objects visitors experience at the park are born through the artists’ daily performative grinds relative to family, community, county, state, nation, and world at large, relating performatively to all.

This year’s event will feature a new never seen before large-scale outdoor art and light animated installation.  This year’s show is an object of a creative annual yield, an accumulation of thought and processes between the care, living, and performative making on the park with a vision towards building a unique Heavenly artistic destination, a living exquisite masterpiece natural to the local surroundings.  The annual exhibition is the fruit for the care of the land by the two living artists. 

“A growing baby turns into a teenager before becoming a grown adult – A BEING. It is what the park becomes in the coming years that is an object of fascination.  Come next year, too and see artful growing wonders.  We all gather to be inventively wiser and smarter,“ states park director David Olaniyi. Featured artworks available for acquisition are a selection of works birthed from daily performances derived from the couples’ artful life on the land. “We and the land are saying, we live here, we create here, we perform here, as an object interacting with other objects yielding one-of-a-kind rare object art – come see the artful and physical product of our presence here.  Feel it, experience it – a creative, thoughtful environment, a soulful, spirited enlightenment.”

Visitors are encouraged to come and share in a creative, positive energy.  They will be able to enjoy new art installations, walk and experience the sacred organic energy of the park implanted in the ground through the year-round care, view collectible art works and meet the artists.  Bayo Park & Galleries invites all to be a part of this artful journey.  

Admission is free for all.  For more information or directions to the park, please visit bayogallery.org or contact us here.