Laura Fritz’s current work has a certain biomorphic sensibility. Translucent and podlike, these rooted, sluglike objects are surrounded by walls of angular mylarplex that are situated inside library glass cases. The housing captures the spirit of a micro funhouse crossbred with hints at the endless duplicitousness in work by artists like Josiah McElheny. These showcases have been made to appear terrarium-like or some unfamiliar experimental bio-chamber. Fritz creates a stage for the audience to view from small square portals, one per each side of these ten foot vitrines. I found the adjacent, readily available library scientific periodicals, reference materials and biology monthlies in some way quite sly, if potentially unintentional. An in-situ appropriation, investigating the specificity of place. Fritz who has used video, magnetized kinetics and other manipulations to cause movement in the past repeats a series of immobile (or frozen) forms in her most pert and visually appealing work to date. If you are reading this, stop by Reed College’s Library (right by the Cooley Gallery) to check it out.

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