Recent News:
> Molly's work is featured in a review in the November/December 2011 issue of ART PAPERS magazine.
> Molly's work is included in a new anthology of text-based art and writing by women artists, It Is Almost That: A Collection of Image + Text, edited by Lisa Pearson and published by Siglio Press. The book includes projects by Eleanor Antin, Fiona Banner, Louise Bourgeois, Jane Hammond, Ann Hamilton, Susan Hiller, Adrian Piper, and Sue Williams, among others, and has been reviewed in Art in Print and Bookforum.
> Molly also contributed to an accompanying limited edition boxed set of ten saddle-stitched artists' booklets and folded broadsides conceived in the spirit of Fluxus and Great Bear, giving artists room to play and experiment. Works include Ann Hamilton’s mirrored concordance of Gertrude Stein and James Joyce; the complete text of Alison Knowles’ House of Dust; a set of alchemical broadsides by Suzanne Treister; “Found Pages from Antinova’s Memoirs” by Eleanor Antin. Edition of 85, signed and numbered by the artists with an additional 15 hors commerce, unnumbered and signed. For more information, or to order a copy of the book or limited edition, visit the Siglio site.
>A new essay on Molly's work, by Ingrid Langston, appears in the catalogue for Art=Text=Art, an exhibition of work from the Kramarksy Collection, on view through October at the University of Richmond Museums.
> Molly is included in a new book, 100 Artists of Washington, DC, by F. Lennox Campello (224 pages with 735+ color images).
> Molly is the recipient of a 2011 Artist Fellowship from the D.C. Commission on the Arts & Humanities / National Endowment for the Arts.
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Upcoming Exhibitions:
Thomas Robertello Gallery - Chicago, IL: June 8-August 18, 2012
solo exhibition, details tba.
Recent Exhibitions:
Joel and Lila Harnett Museum of Art - Richmond, VA: August 18-October 16, 2011
Art=Text=Art: Works by Contemporary Artists, an exhibition of selections from the Sally & Wynn Kramarsky Collection. The exhibition is curated by N. Elizabeth Schlatter, Deputy Director of the University of Richmond Museums, with Rachel Nackman, Registrar of the Kramarsky Collection. Art=Text=Art, including 70 works on paper by 43 different artists, examines the incorporation of text and other elements of language, the communication of information, and the formal structure of narrative in drawings, print series, and artists’ books. More info.
Voorkamer - Lier, Belgium: May 21-July 17, 2011
In - and outside - writing, a group exhibition exploring the relationship between writing and drawing. The core of this exhibition is the OPAK research project of the same name, by artists Kelly Chorpening, Rebecca Fortnum, Peter Morrens, and Ans Nys. During several sessions in the UK and Belgium, and via continuous correspondence, they collaborated intensely over the past year. This exhibition features their work alongside a selection of work by contemporary international artists that they consider exemplary of their project's focus. The project will culminate with two publications later this year: an artists’ book, published by RGAP (UK), and a OPAK cahier, published by ACCO. Further details.
Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts, Harvard University - Cambridge, MA: March 1-April 10, 2011
"FAX" invites a multigenerational group of artists, architects, designers, scientists, filmmakers and writers to reconceive of the fax machine as a thinking and drawing tool. Participants transmit their fax-based work via the venues' working fax lines through the duration of the exhibition's tour. FAX was conceived by João Ribas, who curated its initial exhibition at the Drawing Center in New York. The artists invited by the Carpenter Center to participate include Laylah Ali, Conrad Bakker, Ashley Bickerton, Matt Mullican, Amy Sillman, Molly Springfield.
Mercer Union, Centre for Contemporary Art - Toronto, Canada: January 7-February 26, 2011
Out of Print considers artists’ interpolations of the form of the book. The works are framed in relation to the shift from print-based media towards electronic formats and the current reigning rhetoric around the end of the book. The exhibition presents examples of artists’ interest or obsession with the printed page, presenting responses which range from an insistence of the material legacy of the book to direct antagonism of the book as a fixed authority. Following McLuhan’s attribution of art as "a Distant Early Warning System that can always be relied on to tell the old culture what is beginning to happen to it," Out of Print interprets these differing artistic strategies as emblematic of a larger paradigm shift. Curated by Sarah Robayo Sheridan.
> Molly's work is featured in a review in the November/December 2011 issue of ART PAPERS magazine.
> Molly's work is included in a new anthology of text-based art and writing by women artists, It Is Almost That: A Collection of Image + Text, edited by Lisa Pearson and published by Siglio Press. The book includes projects by Eleanor Antin, Fiona Banner, Louise Bourgeois, Jane Hammond, Ann Hamilton, Susan Hiller, Adrian Piper, and Sue Williams, among others, and has been reviewed in Art in Print and Bookforum.
> Molly also contributed to an accompanying limited edition boxed set of ten saddle-stitched artists' booklets and folded broadsides conceived in the spirit of Fluxus and Great Bear, giving artists room to play and experiment. Works include Ann Hamilton’s mirrored concordance of Gertrude Stein and James Joyce; the complete text of Alison Knowles’ House of Dust; a set of alchemical broadsides by Suzanne Treister; “Found Pages from Antinova’s Memoirs” by Eleanor Antin. Edition of 85, signed and numbered by the artists with an additional 15 hors commerce, unnumbered and signed. For more information, or to order a copy of the book or limited edition, visit the Siglio site.
>A new essay on Molly's work, by Ingrid Langston, appears in the catalogue for Art=Text=Art, an exhibition of work from the Kramarksy Collection, on view through October at the University of Richmond Museums.
> Molly is included in a new book, 100 Artists of Washington, DC, by F. Lennox Campello (224 pages with 735+ color images).
> Molly is the recipient of a 2011 Artist Fellowship from the D.C. Commission on the Arts & Humanities / National Endowment for the Arts.
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Upcoming Exhibitions:
Thomas Robertello Gallery - Chicago, IL: June 8-August 18, 2012
solo exhibition, details tba.
Recent Exhibitions:
Joel and Lila Harnett Museum of Art - Richmond, VA: August 18-October 16, 2011
Art=Text=Art: Works by Contemporary Artists, an exhibition of selections from the Sally & Wynn Kramarsky Collection. The exhibition is curated by N. Elizabeth Schlatter, Deputy Director of the University of Richmond Museums, with Rachel Nackman, Registrar of the Kramarsky Collection. Art=Text=Art, including 70 works on paper by 43 different artists, examines the incorporation of text and other elements of language, the communication of information, and the formal structure of narrative in drawings, print series, and artists’ books. More info.
Voorkamer - Lier, Belgium: May 21-July 17, 2011
In - and outside - writing, a group exhibition exploring the relationship between writing and drawing. The core of this exhibition is the OPAK research project of the same name, by artists Kelly Chorpening, Rebecca Fortnum, Peter Morrens, and Ans Nys. During several sessions in the UK and Belgium, and via continuous correspondence, they collaborated intensely over the past year. This exhibition features their work alongside a selection of work by contemporary international artists that they consider exemplary of their project's focus. The project will culminate with two publications later this year: an artists’ book, published by RGAP (UK), and a OPAK cahier, published by ACCO. Further details.
Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts, Harvard University - Cambridge, MA: March 1-April 10, 2011
"FAX" invites a multigenerational group of artists, architects, designers, scientists, filmmakers and writers to reconceive of the fax machine as a thinking and drawing tool. Participants transmit their fax-based work via the venues' working fax lines through the duration of the exhibition's tour. FAX was conceived by João Ribas, who curated its initial exhibition at the Drawing Center in New York. The artists invited by the Carpenter Center to participate include Laylah Ali, Conrad Bakker, Ashley Bickerton, Matt Mullican, Amy Sillman, Molly Springfield.
Mercer Union, Centre for Contemporary Art - Toronto, Canada: January 7-February 26, 2011
Out of Print considers artists’ interpolations of the form of the book. The works are framed in relation to the shift from print-based media towards electronic formats and the current reigning rhetoric around the end of the book. The exhibition presents examples of artists’ interest or obsession with the printed page, presenting responses which range from an insistence of the material legacy of the book to direct antagonism of the book as a fixed authority. Following McLuhan’s attribution of art as "a Distant Early Warning System that can always be relied on to tell the old culture what is beginning to happen to it," Out of Print interprets these differing artistic strategies as emblematic of a larger paradigm shift. Curated by Sarah Robayo Sheridan.
