LaToya Ruby Frazier, United Auto Workers and their families holding up Drive It Home campaign signs outside UAW Local 1112 Reuther, Scandy, Alli union hall, Lordstown OH, from The Last Cruze, 2019.
LaToya Ruby Frazier, United Auto Workers and their families holding up Drive It Home campaign signs outside UAW Local 1112 Reuther, Scandy, Alli union hall, Lordstown OH, from The Last Cruze, 2019.
Please join us to celebrate the opening of LaToya Ruby Frazier’s solo exhibition, The Last Cruze.
The Last Cruze presents a new body of work by artist LaToya Ruby Frazier, centered on the workers at the General Motors plant in Lordstown, Ohio. After more than fifty years of auto production, the facility has recently been “unallocated” by GM, with profound impacts on the workers, their families, and the larger community there. Featuring an extensive series of photographs and other audio-visual elements, this exhibition introduces a significant new chapter in Frazier’s investigations of labor, family, and working-class lives. The developments in Lordstown have brought wide-spread attention to the small Rust Belt town, which has emerged as a political flashpoint and been cited as symptomatic of shifting economic trends. Timely and nuanced, Frazier’s new work in Lordstown creates a platform for the workers who are directly affected, amplifying their voices.
Artist talk: Frazier discusses her work at 6pm in Kent Hall, a short walk from the Ren.
