[8] Originally an abstract painter, Ozer has developed a unique style of Photorealist painting since embracing realism in early 2000.
He specifically cites Pre-Raphaelite painters Dante Gabriel Rossetti and John Everett Millais as inspirations, in both process and product.
Velázquez's visual demarcations in his paintings suggest, in fact, the employment of the camera obscura, which assisted in achieving an exaggerated perspective and depth of field.
As a member of a generation of younger painters concerned with representation, he draws upon contemporaries such as Chuck Close, Gerhard Richter, and Andrew Wyeth.
According to the Knoxville Museum of Art's curator Steven Wicks, Ozeri's compositions "probe the boundaries between painting and photography within the context of the Digital Age.
The projection is then removed, and the artist translates the forms into tiny painted color shapes that are gradually tightened and blended for varying degrees of focus.