Molly Springfield

We are thrilled to announce that Molly Springfield has been awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in the field of Fine Arts. Celebrating its centennial, the Guggenheim Foundation awarded 198 fellowships to distinguished individuals making their mark in the social sciences, the natural sciences, the humanities, and the creative arts. Established in 1925 by founder Senator Simon Guggenheim, each Fellow receives a monetary stipend to pursue independent work at the highest level under “the freest possible conditions.” Some notable Fellows include Tod Papageorge, Robert Adams, Mitch Epstein, Judith Joy Ross, Tarrah Krajnak and Susan Meiselas. 

Molly Springfield utilizes photocopies of printed texts as source material to produce graphite drawings which are developed over years through in-depth research and manual labour. She asks how pivotal moments within the history of information and reproduction fundamentally transform how we experience language: in art (19th-century trompe l’oeil, 1960s Conceptual art’s use of the Xerox), in literature (practices of translation and transcription), and in technology (the digitization of texts, the rise of e-readership).Springfield will use her award to create new sculptural work for her ongoing project, Holograph Draft, which is inspired by Virginia Woolf’s life and work.