What the Art World Can Learn From Women’s Basketball
"I met LaToya through the Gordon Parks Foundation in 2023, the year that I was honored at their gala. In my remarks, I talked about how I was motivated to follow Parks’s example in using art and storytelling to bring visibility to the WNBA. That resonated with LaToya because she is a former basketball player and has always wanted to tell their stories. When we met, we quickly discovered our shared passion for basketball and uplifting women athletes." —Clara Wu Tsai, New York Liberty Owner
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LaToya Ruby Frazier Puts a Face on the US Labour Crisis
Frieze Magazine by Ian Bourland The artist’s moving portraits of ‘unallocated’ auto workers in Lordstown, Ohio, on view at the Renaissance Society, celebrate the power of unions as job losses hit US manufacturing During the late summer of 2019, some thirty General Motors plants were idled across the US during the strike of 49,000 members […]
Artist’s Lordstown photos are a call to action —
‘The workers are the heroes’ Detroit Free Press by Jamie L. LaReau LaToya Ruby Frazier’s initial encounter with General Motors involved water, not cars. About five years ago, GM was first to complain that corrosion, caused by high levels of chloride in the Flint water, was rusting engine blocks at its Flint Engine Operations. “They […]
Bryan Stevenson’s Moral Clarity
The Wall Street Journal Magazine by Donovan X. Ramsey The human rights lawyer, whose memoir is the basis for the forthcoming film ‘Just Mercy,’ has devoted his life to fighting for the convicted and the condemned. LaToya photographed Bryan Stevenson for the Wall Street Journal’s 2019 Innovators issue. Bryan and LaToya were both recipients of […]
Anti-Capitalist Chronicles: GM Plant Closing
Professor David Harvey talks about the work of photographer LaToya Ruby Frazier who documents the news of the Lordstown, Ohio plant closing and the impact it had on the workers, families and community at large. Courtesy of: Democracy at Work
In San Francisco, Wielding Influence (Gently) Through Art
The New York Times by Ted Loos “Soft Power” looks at how creativity helps to shape society. “Soft Power,” at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art through mid-February, epitomizes its era in that it looks self-consciously at the ways in which cultural influence is exerted, with special attention to previously hidden voices. “The title […]
Episode No. 412: LaToya Ruby Frazier
The Modern Art Notes Podcast features LaToya Ruby Frazier. The Renaissance Society in Chicago is showing “LaToya Ruby Frazier: The Last Cruze.” The exhibition features a new body of work that focuses on the United Auto Workers members at General Motors’s Lordstown, Ohio plant. The facility, which had produced automobiles for over 50 years, was […]
Renaissance Society exhibition shines light on Northeast Ohio working class
Hyde Park Herald by Aaron Gettinger Two days before 50,000 United Automobile Workers (UAW) members went on strike against General Motors over pay and idled plants, photographer LaToya Ruby Frazier opened “The Last Cruze” at the Renaissance Society, shining a light on the toll GM’s decision to “un-allocate” a plant in Lordstown, Ohio, has taken […]
‘No One Was Going to Pay Attention’
ARTnews by Claire Voon As GM Auto Workers Strike in Ohio, LaToya Ruby Frazier Debuts Photos of Union Laborers in Chicago Last November, workers at a General Motors plant in Lordstown, Ohio, received some fateful news: the automotive company’s chief executive, Mary Barra, had decided to “unallocate” the 53-year-old factory in town, in addition to […]
LaToya Ruby Frazier: The Last Cruze: Lost Labor
FAD Magazine by Caira Moreira-Brown Visual artist, LaToya Ruby Frazier showcases her collaborative storytelling with the people who appear in her photographs, videos, texts, interviews, and performances in her latest exhibition, The Last Cruze at The Renaissance Society in Chicago, IL. The Last Cruze zooms in on Lordstown, Ohio and the automotive union there. Fraizer […]
LaToya Ruby Frazier’s Labor of Love
The photographer’s first Chicago solo show centers on workers at a beleaguered GM factory in Ohio. Chicago Magazine by Jake Malooey Last November, LaToya Ruby Frazier got wind of the kind of news she finds both troubling and creatively motivating. General Motors was planning to close five North American plants in the coming year. The […]
Stacey Abrams’s Fight for a Fair Vote
As the 2020 elections approach, Abrams is leading the battle against voter suppression. The New Yorker by Jelani Cobb “I have the right to do the things I think I should do,” Abrams said. “My gender and my race should not be limitations.”Photograph by LaToya Ruby Frazier for The New Yorker Among the many issues […]
LaToya Ruby at the Mudam Luxembourg
Wall Street International Magazine by Staff 27 Apr — 22 Sep 2019 Mudam Luxembourg in Luxembourg, Luxembourg Coinciding with May 2019, the European Month of Photography, Mudam Luxembourg – Musée d’Art Moderne Grand-Duc Jean presents a monographic exhibition for one of the most important photographers of her generation, LaToya Ruby Frazier (*1982). Since the early 2000s this […]