The Stranger, April 3rd, 2008
Here We Are Now
Gretchen Bennett Colors In Kurt Cobain
Everything that Gretchen Bennett makes is a sort of humbled afterlife of something else, usually something geographic: cut street stickers arranged to represent images of her old
neighborhood in Brooklyn; labels from used-up water bottles reassembled and mounted pristinely on paper in the shape of Mount Rainier; and now, colored-pencil portraits of YouTube videos that revolve around a dead man, Kurt Cobain. It isn't that Bennett is stuck in the past; it's as if, like a musician covering a song, she waits for just the right time to pull ...
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