select press
"Portland boasts a robust alternative art scene with some of the most exciting video artists in the country, such as Matt McCormick, Vanessa Renwick, Laura Fritz and Harrell Fletcher" Regina Hackett, Seattle Post Intelligencer, October 10 2005
"Laura Fritz's work often has sinister undercurrents.... but the clinical iciness of Fritz's overall approach is highly appealing" Richard Speer, Willammette Week September 15 2010
"Entering the exhibit brings a wave of darkness like stepping into a haunted house, not in the sense of being frightened but in succumbing to an entire environment of shadows. Fritz actually constructed an entire new drywall to block out the light from the gallery's floor-to-ceiling entrance....This meticulous, almost obsessive detail underscores and heightens the effect of Fritz's minimalist stagecraft." Brian Libby, Oregonian, February 2 2009
"...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." Elizabeth Pence, Artweek, September 2005
"Laura Fritz is interested in the inside of your brain, the place where you process light, make memories and filter out stray things. In your account of what happened on any given day, you may not include the strand of hair that fell across your face, the inanimate objects that appeared to jump at the edge of your vision, the moth you saw trapped on a screen or the cat waiting behind a door. Those stray things appeal to Fritz. . . . Fritz's work seems personal, as if we, the audience, thought of it first, but it is remote, in that as art it doesn't care what we think. Without any warning, it pumps out moths. Three days after seeing it, I can't get it out of my head." Regina Hackett, Seattle Post Intelligencer, May 20th 2005
Willamette Week September 15 2010
Ultra Arts Portland September 21 2010
NY Arts Magazine, January|February 2009
Interview with Laura Fritz, February 14th 2009
Oregonian, February 2nd 2009
Minus Space, January 21st 2009
Portland Mercury, January 15th 2009
Willamette Week, January 14th 2009
PORT, November 30 2007
Oregonian, October 10 2007
Portland Mercury June 22nd 2006
Seattle Post Intelligencer May 2005
The Stranger (Seattle) 2005 & 2003
Modern Painters Spring 2003
Willamette Week May 7th 2003
