Molly Springfield (born 1977)[1] is an American artist whose work includes labor-intensive drawings of printed texts and visual explorations of the history of information and mediated representation.
Her drawings and installations are typically based on texts that reveal visionary moments in the history of how people experience, organize, and reproduce information.
Her source material, contemporary examples of marginalia submitted by friends and viewers, is repurposed into a functioning archive that expands during the course of an exhibition.
[5] Critic Kenneth Baker, writing in the San Francisco Chronicle, called it an "irresistible" work "of rare conceptual elegance".
"[9] Another previous installation by Springfield, exhibited in 2006, was based on the life and writings of William Henry Fox Talbot, the polymath who invented negative-positive photography.
[citation needed] Reviews of her work have appeared in Artforum, Art Papers, Modern Painters, The Village Voice, The New Yorker, the San Francisco Chronicle, and the Chicago Tribune.