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"...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
"At once, Fritz's work was all about conjuring a mood, and she used a fascinating blend of minimalist architectural sensibility, auteur-driven cinema and an entomology as her vocabulary. " Brian Libby, Portland Architecture, February 10, 2020
"Ms. Fritz's "Entorus" comprises mostly abstract—and, at first, barely perceptible—images projected on the walls and floor.... 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." Peter Plagens, The Wall Street Journal, May 3 2012
"Apophenia is a scientific term that refers to the feeling you get when you start to see connections among seemingly unrelated things. It's not unrelated to how Fritz produces art in her studio." Johnathan Williams, OPB's State of Wonder, July 30, 2016
"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.... This meticulous, almost obsessive detail underscores and heightens the effect of Fritz's minimalist stagecraft." Brian Libby, Oregonian, February 2 2009
"The show co-inhabits a neo-Gothic architectural orientation, a gothic-romantic literary-psychological bent, and the equally spooky off-kilter Americana of Grant Wood’s creepy classic, 'American Gothic.' Fritz, a mid-career staple of the Pacific Northwest arts community, has masterminded a supremely elegant multimedia installation that integrates perfectionist craftsmanship, minimalist panache, and a knack for transmuting spatial and subtextual ambiguity into angst or even low-grade terror." Richard Speer, Visual Art Source, December 10, 2019
"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
"Unrelenting in its contemplative quiet, Fritz seems to want to reacquaint us with silence, that unsung casualty of the information age, so that we might see the physical phenomenon of the world—light, shadow, reflection—with fresh eyes." - John Motley, Portland Mercury, January 15 2009
Media, A Transdisciplinary Inquiry, ed. Jeremy Swartz & Janet Wasco, Intellect by University of Chicago Press, 2021, ISBN 978-1-78938-326-3
Portland Architecture Interview, Projections of Light, Brian Libby, Februray 10, 2020
Visual Arts Source Editorial, Richard Speer, December 10, 2019
Oregonian Editorial, Christine Davis, October 25, 2019
Art Focus Interview, Joseph Gallivan, September 9, 2019
Interview for Anti-Heroin Chic, James Diaz, August 16, 2016
Exploring Color And Recollection Through 'The Color Of Memory', Johnathan Williams, OPB's State of Wonder, July 30, 2016
Mining Uncertainty: Laura Fritz in Focus, April Baer, OPB's State of Wonder, May 3, 2014
Exhibitions to Lift the Spirit, Transparencies, Judith Dobrinski The New York Times, March 20th, 2013
Our Next Art Capital: Portland? Peter Plagens for The Wall Street Journal, April 3 2012
Plazm's (Urban Honking blog), April 12 2012
Willamette Week, Richard Speer, April 11 2012
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
