Debra Baxter
Gretchen Bennett

Topography of Home

March 6 – 28, 2004
Reception / Saturday, March 6, 7–10pm

Topography of Home presents the work of Gretchen Bennett of Williamsburg, Brooklyn and Debra Baxter of Seattle, Washington.

Their work examines the establishment of individual space and experimenting with borders. Taking in the lay of the land and determining what roots us and what is fleeting, both Baxter and Bennett focus on the momentary, representing moments seized and weighed.

Debra Baxter uses hundreds of powder puffs sewn together to create billowing masses of clouds hinting at adornment. Her monotypes on silk tissue paper and vellum present a kind of quietude and subtlety, addressing density, gravity and mass.

Gretchen Bennett explores the idea that paper-light objects tie us to a place; they are markers, points, and indicators. Pulled from the everyday, she chooses and arranges these, pulling in all apparent strands of a common language in the form of drawings and installations.