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Laura Fritz, is a Portland, Oregon based installation artist who incorporates sculpture, light and video.[1]
Fritz is noted for her immersive science lab like environments.[2] Originally trained as a painter in Iowa, since showing at Pacific Northwest College of Art in 2000 Fritz has been practicing as an installation artist utilizing custom furniture, cast forms, light and space.[3] Though she's been hailed as one of "the most exciting video artists in the country"[4] in the company of other noted Portland residents Miranda July, Matt McCormick and Harrell Fletcher, Fritz's work differs as she creates video objects like Transposition (2005)[5] or installations like [1] Interspace (2008), both of which featured the shadows of animals that appear to inhabit a constructed, minimalist space. Other exhibitions like Intrus (2010) and Caseworks 13 (2007) at Reed College drew critical attention without video, instead using light like a material for sculpture.[6] In 2007, Fritz was awarded one of the coveted NAAU stipend shows,.[7] The resulting show Evident (2009) received much praise among critics.[8] In an exposé on the surge in the Portland art scene's recent rise in prominence Peter Plagens singled her work out as, "Ms. Fritz's 'Entorus' comprises mostly abstract—and, at first, barely perceptible—images projected on the walls and floor of a darkened room temporarily set aside in an office-building basement. It was one of two truly memorable artworks I saw during my brief tour. If you think that's skimpy, remember that these days a stroll through New York's Chelsea gallery district probably wouldn't yield much more."[9]
- ^ Hackett, Regina [2], Seattle Post Intelligencer May 20th 2005
- ^ Nelson, Sarah [3] The Stranger, May 26, 2005
- ^ Gallivan, Joseph [https://kboo.fm/media/75449-joseph-gallivan-interviews-installation-artist-laura-fritz-about-her-show-apex-portland, KBOO September 10, 2019
- ^ Hackett, [4] Regina Seattle Post Intelligencer, October 10th 2005
- ^ Henderson, Harvest The Oregonian October 10th 2005
- ^ Little, Matthew [http://heroinchic.weebly.com/blog/interview-with-artist-laura-fritz, Anti-Herion Chic August 2016
- ^ Jahn, Jeff [5], PORT October 9, 2007
- ^ Motley, John Portland Mercury [6] January 15, 2009.
- ^ Plagens, Peter [7], The Wall Street Journal May 2nd 2012