Gretchen Frances Bennett — Gretchen Frances Bennett

Vignettes / Derelict, you're not coming back, I mean that in the nicest way, rest

For Vignettes Gallery in 2017, I made new drawings that track faithful at-hand objects. These objects, rescued and stray, are pieced-together place holders, in an ongoing search for the things that stay for a while. A constellation of fragment drawings continually touches down on this question of what is important, yet is not overly tied to it. Artifacts are caught in drawings, as if in morning light, or (Giorgio) Morandi non-light, just before coming into view, on the frontier of existence. A glass fishing float is drawn as a small universe, enacting the containment of the studio space and its objects. All questions are held in this slow drift of ephemera and photocopied parts, redrawn. An algorithm forms, following and repeating these items, open to changes, such as a shift in color. As I recite these objects, through drawing them, I let parts go.

This exhibition was the last Vignettes of this season / iteration at El Capitan apartments.

I read a poem, A Blue That Keeps Moving, at the opening party.

Review:

MKNZ, “When Something Passes,” Vignettes in the Studio, 2017

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