Molly Springfield's work usually begins with a source text or a moment in history. She recently completed a translation of the first chapter of Proust's In Search of Lost Time in the form of graphite drawings of photocopies of every existing English translation of the novel. Other recent and ongoing projects explore the invention of calotype photography in the 1830's, conceptual art of the 1960's and '70's, the proto-history of the Internet, Google's book-scanning patents, the history of how drawing is taught, and the ways that marginalia reveals relationships between readers and texts. Each of these projects explores, to varying degrees, the oppositions between reproduction versus originality, seeing versus reading, and technology versus labor.

In 2012, Molly will have a solo show in Chicago. In 2013, she will have a solo show in San Francisco and her entire Proust translation project will be included in a major exhibition organized by the Indianapolis Museum of Art. She is the recipient of a 2011 Artist Fellowship from the D.C. Commission on the Arts & Humanities/National Endowment for the Arts.