Richard Crozier

Charlottesville, VA

Richard Crozier is a retired professor of art, having taught at the University of Virginia for 37 years. He received his MFA from the University of California, Davis, where he studied with contemporary American artists Wayne Thiebaud, William T. Wiley, and Roy de Forest. He was introduced to abstract painting but also began painting landscapes en plein air and combined these two approaches by painting recognizable landscapes while thinking about the painting as an object, giving the paint, texture, and surface the same importance as the image itself. He is particularly interested in change, including man-made alterations to the environment. Crozier’s work has been widely exhibited in California, Texas, New York, Washington, D.C., and throughout Virginia.