About

 

Aaron Uzzle is a Virginia-born artist who has depicted Blackness in otherworldy spaces since 2019. He started drawing at five years old and Adobe software after high school. His passion and involvement with art expanded as he grew older until it became his choice of profession.

 

Uzzle has an eclectic range of influences intending to show the beauty and anxiety surrounding his Black identity. West African artistic traditions, Hip-Hop culture, and collectible Black figurines inform his current approach to his work. The incorporation of found objects in his current works also illustrates the artist's resourcefulness and "naivety" stemming from his mainly self-taught development. 

His portrait paintings are a surrealist approach to Uzzle's objective in his work, influenced, again, by Hip-Hop culture and by artists in the Black American tradition.

 

Uzzle has a degree in Creative Advertising from Virginia Commonwealth University. He received art education through art history electives and a non-major painting class. His work was displayed at a black student-run art exhibition. He completed a mural commission in Richmond, Virginia. Geez Magazine published his artwork in its fifty-eighth issue in Fall 2020. Since February 2021, his work has been virtually on display for the 4th Richmond Virginia Black Lives Matter art show and publicly by the NEON District in Norfolk,

Virginia.

 

Uzzle primarily works in clay, mixed media, oil paints, and Adobe Suite. He is based in Richmond, Virginia.