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Aaron Uzzle is a Virginia-born artist who has depicted transcendental visions of Black identity since 2017. He started drawing at five and decided to pursue art as a profession after graduating high school. Uzzle’s dedication to the craft is unbounded, and his passion for art has elevated into a spiritual calling.

Uzzle was initially interested in drawing and painting, blending influences from the works of European Old and Modern Masters with Hip-Hop aesthetics. He became disillusioned with the lack of Black representation in Western Art History. West African and Afro-Atlantic artistic traditions, merged with Hip-Hop culture, inform the current approach to his work. Uzzle seeks to create spiritual vessels that contribute to these traditions and critique the exploitative, imperialist nature of the West.

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. He completed a mural commission in Richmond, Virginia in 2019. Geez Magazine published his artwork in its fifty-eighth issue in Fall 2020. Since February 2021, his work has been displayed for the 4th Richmond Virginia Black Lives Matter art show and publicly by the NEON District in Norfolk, Virginia.

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