Laura Fritz

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Laura Fritz, is an installation and video artist based in Portland, Oregon.[1]


Noted for her disturbing science lab like environments[2] Fritz has been hailed as one of "the most exciting video artists in the county"[3] in the company of other noted Portland residents Miranda July, Matt McCormick, Vanessa Renwick and Harrell Fletcher. Fritz's work differs as she creates video objects like Transposition (2005)[4] or Interspace (2008),both of which feature the shadows of animals that appear to inhabit a constructed, minimalist space. Fritz was recently awarded one of the coveted NAAU stipend shows.[5]


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[edit] Exhibitions and Press

Fritz has exhibited at the Des Moines Art Center, Reed College, Aljira Center For Contemporary Art, Soil Art Gallery, Pacific Northwest College of Art, the Barrett Art Center and most recently Quality Pictures Contemporary Art in Portland.


A favorite of critics, her work often provokes intense writing like "...This stressing of anti-narrative opens up the possibility of uncertainty, a more active intellectual state, the space of change....She knows where the edges are, liminal territories with room to move. She puts into service a series of challenges in identifying, consuming and silencing the art object."[6]

[edit] Background

Originally from Chicago she studied art at Drake University with Joe Biel and Jules Kirschenbaum whose figurative style she distanced herself from, instead focusing on Donald Judd and Eva Hesse for their perceptual and material qualities. The filmmakers, Alfred Hitchcock and David Lynch are also often brought up when discussing her work.

[edit] References

  1. ^ Hackett, Regina http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/visualart/224974_visual20.html, Seattle Post Intelligencer May 20th 2005
  2. ^ Neslon, Sarah http://www.thestranger.com/seattle/Content?oid=21529 The Stranger, May 26 2005
  3. ^ Hackett,http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/visualart/243793_portlandart.html Regina Seattle Post Intelligencer, October 10th 2005
  4. ^ Henderson, Harvest The Oregonian October 10th 2005
  5. ^ Jahn, Jeff http://www.portlandart.net/archives/2007/10/naau_is_the_tim.html, PORT October 9 2007
  6. ^ Pence, Elizabeth Artweek, September 2005

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