Contact:  rozierphoto@gmail.com

About House Music

In my twenties, during the late 1970s, I began an open-ended series of unposed portraits of the people around me. Inevitably, over time these began to coalesce loosely into a narrative. A long excerpt, from about 1987 to 2014, has become the basis for this series. These images ultimately build a story that spans a generation: I marry, start a family, lose parents, watch my children grow up, and see them leave home. As it happened, however, those twenty-six years provided me with a remarkable cast of characters whose striking combination of anxiety, ferocity, and charisma ultimately gave this work its life.

House Music, with an essay by Alison Nordström, is published by Dewi Lewis Publishing.

About the studio portraits

In order to move on but still build upon the (unposed) family portrait series, I have been working on almost the complete opposite: posed, formal portraits. I began working on a photographic approach in which an allegorical background was used to complement or amplify the subject’s character, drawing from classical portraiture.

CV / Juried exhibitions

MFA, Cranbrook Academy of Art 1978

2017

26th International exhibition, Texas Photo Society; juror Alison Nordstrom

National Photography Award finalist, Texas Photo Society; jurors Andrew Kensett, Martina Lopez

2016

25th International exhibition, Texas Photo Society; juror Rixon Reed, founder, Photo-Eye, Santa Fe NM

Family exhibition, Umbrella Arts gallery, New York NY; juror Howard Stein

Home exhibition, Center for Fine Art Photography, Fort Collins CO; juror Kevin Miller, Curator, Southeast Museum of Photography

Portraits exhibition, Center for Fine Art Photography, Fort Collins CO; juror Karen Marks, Director, Howard Greenberg Gallery, New York NY

2015

Memories exhibition, Center for Fine Art Photography, Fort Collins CO; juror Amy Galpin, Curator, Cornell Fine Arts Museum

Portraits exhibition, Center for Fine Art Photography, Fort Collins CO; juror Martha Schneider, Schneider Gallery, Chicago IL (Director’s Honorable Mention)

2013

ONWARD Compe exhibition, Project Basho Gallery, Philadelpha PA, juror Mark Steinmetz

Family exhibition, Center for Fine Art Photography, Fort Collins CO; juror Katherine Ware, New Mexico Museum of Art

2012

Spontaneous exhibition, Darkroom Gallery, Essex Jct VT; juror Nikos Economopoulos, Magnum

San Francisco International Photography Exhibition, Gallery Photographica, SF; juror Jeff Curto

Art of Photography exhibition, San Diego Art Institute; juror Julian Cox, Curator of Photography, de Young Museum

Texas Photo Society 21st International exhibition; juror Aline Smithson

Portraits Issue, Shots magazine

2011

Center Forward exhibition, Center for Fine Art Photography, Fort Collins CO; juror Hannah Glasgow

Atlántica Colectivas exhibition,  FOTONOVIEMBRE 2011, Centro de Fotografía Isla de Tenerife

Texas Photographic Society Members' Only Show; juror Henry Horenstein

Open Competition 2011, Vermont PhotoPlace Gallery, Middlebury VT;  juror Alison Nordstrom

2010

Uncommon Portraits exhibition, Photoplace Gallery, Middlebury VT; juror Cig Harvey

Exposure exhibition, Photographic Resource Center, Boston MA; juror Mia Fineman, Metropolitan Museum of Art, NYC

16th Juried Exhibition, Griffin Museum, Winchester MA; juror Joerg Colberg, Conscientious

6th Juried Exhibition, Newspace Center for Photography, Portland OR; juror Darren Ching, 

Klompching Gallery, NYC

Black and White exhibition, Center for Fine Art Photography, Fort Collins CO; juror Andrea Modica

Texas Photo Society/Fraction Best Shot competition; juror David Bram, Fraction magazine

2009

National Portrait Exhibition, Center for Fine Art Photography, Fort Collins, CO; juror Mary Ellen Mark (Director’s Choice award winner)

Lishui Photo Festival invitational exhibition, Lishui, China

Childhood exhibition, Texas Photographic Society, San Antonio TX

Critical Mass finalist, Photolucida, Portland OR

2008

National Competition exhibition, Soho Photo Gallery, New York NY; juror Charles Traub

Critical Mass finalist, Photolucida, Portland OR