Gretchen Frances Bennett

Gretchen Frances Bennett is an interdisciplinary artist whose work reimagines versions of self as protagonists of historical and spiritual narratives that shape personal versions of beliefs and identity. Bennett’s recent drawings organize the internal sources that guide her process and give pattern to personal signifiers, while also seeking ways to communicate transcendent experiences. She is interested to see how the recounting of personal stories, and considering the fluid nature of memory, can change a larger understanding of historic occurrence, rendering larger histories in smaller truthful stories.

Bennett graduated with an MFA from Rutgers, Mason Gross School of the Arts in 2001. She has exhibited with the Frye Art Museum and the Seattle Art Museum. She has held residencies with the Bronx Museum of Art and the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council and created a public program with the Drawing Center in New York. Bennett’s creative writing has appeared in Cold Cube Press for Veronica Project Space, Seattle, WA; in Earth Saga Press, Letters from Earth, Glasgow, United Kingdom; and in La Norda Specialo, Seattle, WA. In 2021/2022, she completed a Fulbright Core Scholar research grant, for retracing a family trip in Slovakia, in support of a future creative-non-fiction book.