Molly Springfield's drawings and installations are based on texts, particularly those that reveal visionary moments in the history of how we experience, organize, and reproduce information. She combines a labor-intensive drawing practice with an investigation of problems such as reproduction versus originality, seeing versus reading, and technology versus labor.
Her most recently completed project is a translation of the first chapter of Proust's In Search of Lost Time in the form of drawings of photocopies of every existing English translation of the novel. Ongoing and recent projects explore William Henry Fox Talbot's invention of "photogenic drawing" in the 1830's; Google's book-scanning patents (set in the type of the Gutenberg Bible), the proto-history of the Internet, library cataloguing systems, the history of how drawing is taught in schools, and the ways in which marginalia reveals relationships between readers and texts.
Molly was born in 1977. She received her MFA from the University of California, Berkeley in 2004, and was a participant at the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture in 2006. Her work has been the subject of solo shows in New York, Chicago, San Francisco, and Washington, group shows in museums and galleries across the United States and Europe, and reviews in Artforum, Art Papers, The Village Voice, The New Yorker, the San Francisco Chronicle, and the Chicago Tribune. She lives and works in Washington, DC.
Her most recently completed project is a translation of the first chapter of Proust's In Search of Lost Time in the form of drawings of photocopies of every existing English translation of the novel. Ongoing and recent projects explore William Henry Fox Talbot's invention of "photogenic drawing" in the 1830's; Google's book-scanning patents (set in the type of the Gutenberg Bible), the proto-history of the Internet, library cataloguing systems, the history of how drawing is taught in schools, and the ways in which marginalia reveals relationships between readers and texts.
Molly was born in 1977. She received her MFA from the University of California, Berkeley in 2004, and was a participant at the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture in 2006. Her work has been the subject of solo shows in New York, Chicago, San Francisco, and Washington, group shows in museums and galleries across the United States and Europe, and reviews in Artforum, Art Papers, The Village Voice, The New Yorker, the San Francisco Chronicle, and the Chicago Tribune. She lives and works in Washington, DC.
