Molly Springfield makes drawings and installations based on texts. Her recent projects include a series of faithful drawings of photocopies of printed books; an investigation into how handwritten marginalia reveals relationships between readers and texts; and her own "translation" of the first chapter of Marcel Proust's In Search of Lost Time, in the form of drawings made from every existing English translation of the novel.
Molly's work often focuses on visionary moments that have transformed the way information is represented or organized—such as William Henry Fox Talbot's discovery of positive-negative photography and Paul Otlet's dream of a universal "city of knowledge," which she reads as a kind of proto-history of the Internet. Among other things, Molly is interested in oppositions between reproduction and originality, seeing and reading, technology and labor, digital and analog, and pencil and print.
Molly was born in 1977, received her MFA from the University of California at Berkeley in 2004, and was in residence at Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture in 2006. Her work has been reviewed in Artforum, Art Papers, The Village Voice, The New Yorker, the San Francisco Chronicle, and the Chicago Tribune.
Molly's work often focuses on visionary moments that have transformed the way information is represented or organized—such as William Henry Fox Talbot's discovery of positive-negative photography and Paul Otlet's dream of a universal "city of knowledge," which she reads as a kind of proto-history of the Internet. Among other things, Molly is interested in oppositions between reproduction and originality, seeing and reading, technology and labor, digital and analog, and pencil and print.
Molly was born in 1977, received her MFA from the University of California at Berkeley in 2004, and was in residence at Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture in 2006. Her work has been reviewed in Artforum, Art Papers, The Village Voice, The New Yorker, the San Francisco Chronicle, and the Chicago Tribune.
