Serge Alain Nitegeka first started to make paintings to document his site-specific sculptural installations: angular and slightly menacing thickets of black plywood that ensnare crates and other sculptural elements as they ricochet off walls, ceilings, and floors. Using a stripped-down palette and recurring abstract and figurative forms, Nitegeka produces a stunning variety of visual and spatial objects. In this work, beamlike bands fragment the visual field and impede the movement of the viewer’s eye. These linear elements meet semicircles and crescents, which recall the moon, hulls of boats, and doors in architectural plans. For Nitegeka, whose family migrated across Africa as refugees when he was a child, this imagery and the overall sense of constraint evoke the myriad obstacles faced by displaced people around the world.