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Shoutout for August 2006: Gretchen Bennett

This month we applaud artist Gretchen Bennett for her efforts to draw connections between the Pacific and Atlantic coasts via her bicoastal lifestyle and transient street art.

Born in Portland OR, Gretchen has spent most of her adult life straddling the divide between Seattle WA and Brooklyn NY, mapping her movement through communities via her trademark stickering.

Though currently based in Seattle, she recently spent a month in Williamsburg, Brooklyn working on two new street projects, "The Sweetest Landscape" and "Attention Vagabond."

Dog Head from the Attention Vagabond Series
Copyright 2006 Gretchen Bennett

With "The Sweetest Landscape," the artist created a one-month record of her life by tracking her paths through Williamsburg — a neighborhood she describes as "terrifically transitional at the moment" — with safety orange stickers she blended with found construction marks and random neon markings.

During the same period, another street series, "Attention Vagabond," brought one of Gretchen's foundational personal icons — junk yard dogs — to life via street stencils and photographs.

For more information on Gretchen's bicoastal mapping, see www.gretchenbennett.com.