UCHENNA OBINABO-MABAZZA

The artist.
The atelier.

Each work begins with an original artistic vision by Uchenna Obinabo-Mabazza, brought to life in oil through a collaborative studio process that preserves the artist’s distinctive vision, symbolism, and emotional depth.

The work begins with a feeling that has not yet found its image.

The life beneath the surface.

Uchenna’s practice explores the tension between what is visible and what is privately endured. A lifted face, a body emerging into light, or a figure dissolving into color becomes a way to approach experiences that resist a simple account.

His experience of cancer and recovery informs the work’s emotional depth. Fear, tenderness, grief, and the desire to continue coexist within the image. Beauty carries the weight of what has been lived.

A complete visual world.

Scale, gesture, darkness, and light shape the encounter. Each painting is conceived as an independent presence: something to live with, return to, and continue to discover.

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INSIDE THE STUDIO

From vision
to canvas.

An original composition. A collaborative studio practice. A physical life in oil.

I.

The conception

Uchenna develops each original composition using digital drawing, photo editing, and computer-aided creative tools. Form, color, gesture, and light are refined around the emotional intention of the work.

II.

The collaboration

The composition is translated into a traditional oil painting with a master painting studio. Professional studio painters bring their skill in pigment and brushwork to the work under Uchenna’s artistic direction.

III.

The encounter

The painted work gives the originating vision material depth, scale, and texture. Its surface invites close attention while the complete composition holds its presence across a room.

Uchenna authors the originating composition and directs its development. The master studio’s painters execute the physical painting through their professional craft.

ART AND PURPOSE

A vision with
a wider life.

Revenue from art sales, after expenses, helps sustain the Mabazza Foundation’s work and its support for cancer-support organizations.

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