About

Julian Rozzell Jr. is a New York–based visual artist and  actor whose collage-driven paintings confront history  through fragmentation, texture, and emotional weight.  Rooted in Black cultural memory and political reflection,  his work draws from architecture, found imagery, and  spiritual symbolism to reframe narratives of struggle,  dignity, and survival. Working in parallel with a  distinguished career in theater and film, Rozzell brings a  performer’s sense of timing, character, and human  complexity to his visual practice. His Selma series stands  as a convergence of art, activism, and lived experience.

The Selma Series

The Selma Series is a collage-based body of work created on site in Selma, Alabama and  featured in the France 2 documentary Songs at the Crossing, produced in commemoration of the  60th Anniversary of the Selma Marches for Voting Rights. The series emerged from daily  immersion in the town—walking its streets, interviewing foot soldiers, performing, and engaging  in sustained conversation with the living history of the community. Each piece was shaped in real 

time, responding to the people, the architecture, the rituals, and the emotional gravity of the  place. 

Drawing from archival photographs, newsprint textures, and layered abstraction, the works  reflect the unfinished nature of freedom struggles. Figures appear fractured, moving through  bridges, churches, and landscapes that carry memory, decay, and resilience. With its raw, brutalist  aesthetic, the series resists nostalgia and instead frames Selma as a living site of endurance,  reckoning, and spiritual resistance. 

A portion of all sales directly supports Selma’s Voting Rights Museum and Brown Chapel  A.M.E. Church, linking the work back to the community that inspired it.