Augustine Uzor, visiting clinical faculty, foundations and drawing, in the School of Art & Design at Alfred University, collaborated on a two-person exhibition on view at RELE in Los Angeles.
The exhibition, titled “Eye Candy,” featured work by Uzor and Jite Abro. The exhibition, which opened Jan. 17, 2026, and remains on view through Feb. 14, 2026, presents a compelling body of paintings and drawings that explore the deeply personal and political terrain of displacement, migration, and the fragile notion of “home.”
Uzor’s work reflects on the lived experience of existing between places—of belonging and unbelonging—shaped by global histories of conflict and the contemporary realities of immigration.
Rooted in research on the journeys of African migrants across the Sahara Desert and the Mediterranean Sea, Uzor’s practice has evolved to address the ongoing political instability in Sub-Saharan Africa and its enduring ripple effects on human displacement. This inquiry is inseparable from his own experience as an immigrant in the United States, forming an introspective and emotionally charged investigation into psychological, cultural, and spatial rupture.
Through layered architectural forms, fragmented figures, and cinematic atmospheres, Uzor constructs immersive, panoramic environments that oscillate between memory and imagination. His paintings evoke psychological landscapes rendered through color and shifting light, while his drawings unfold as fields of swift, intricate lines—suggesting motion, settlement, and the restless search for grounding. Together, these works function as both personal archive and speculative reconstruction: fragments of places once familiar, now accessible only through recollection and reinvention.
Eye Candy positions Uzor’s work as both formally striking and conceptually urgent, offering viewers an experience that is at once visually lush and profoundly reflective, addressing questions of identity, loss, resilience, and the enduring human desire for home.