![\"\"](\"https:\/\/marymount.edu\/academics\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2020\/12\/Excerpts_MSpringfield_1.jpg\")
<\/h3>\n<\/h3>\nCurated by:<\/strong> Paul Shortt Marymount University wants to welcome the community to its new state-of-the-art Ballston Gallery with a free reception to meet artist Molly Springfield from 6 to 9 p.m. on Thursday, Sept. 28. Springfield\u2019s drawings are featured in the debut exhibit, \u201cExcerpts,\u201d at the recently completed Ballston Center, 1000 North Glebe Road.<\/p>\n The Washington, D.C.-based artist is known for her meticulously rendered graphite drawings of photocopies of printed books and often makes work that considers the changing nature of reading in an era of digital transformation.<\/p>\n \u201cThese drawings include a mixture of marginalia and annotations that people make in books,\u201d said Paul Shortt, the gallery\u2019s interim director. \u201cMaybe they underline a phrase or make a little dot next to a writing. They almost look like large photocopies, but once you get up close, you can tell that they are painstakingly drawn with graphite.\u201d<\/p>\n Shortt praised Marymount for opening the public gallery at a time when many area spaces are closing.<\/p>\n \u201cAs an educational institution, Marymount University strongly supports the arts,\u201d said Bridget Murphy, associate provost and professor of communication and media design. \u201cThis state-of-the-art gallery showcases the university’s support of the liberal arts tradition and will be an asset to the Arlington and Washington metropolitan community. The long-term plan of the contemporary space is to strengthen the arts community by exhibiting local, regional and international artists.\u201d<\/p>\n Murphy envisions partnering with other cultural organizations and museums in the D.C. area to exhibit thought-provoking and creative work for everyone in the community to experience.<\/p>\n Springfield\u2019s work is included in the permanent collections of the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Sally & Wynn Kramarsky Collection, and Francis H. Williams Collection. She received her MFA from the University of California, Berkeley in 2004, was a participant at Skowhegan in 2006, and a MacDowell Colony Fellow in 2016.<\/p>\n The source material for the drawings in Excerpts comes from her ongoing project, The Marginalia Archive\u2014a functioning archive of contemporary examples of readers\u2019 written annotations of texts, which she has been soliciting and collecting since 2007. The archive, some of which will be included in the exhibition, includes a large selection of found marginalia from books in Washington, D.C.\u2019s public library.<\/p>\n The exhibit runs Aug. 31 through Oct. 21. Regular gallery hours are from 1 to 6 p.m., Thursdays through Saturdays.<\/p>\n Marymount University is an independent, coeducational Catholic university offering bachelor\u2019s, master\u2019s, and doctoral degrees in a wide range of disciplines.<\/p>\n
\nExhibition:<\/strong> August 31 – October 21, 2017
\nOpening:<\/strong> Thursday, September 28, 2017, 6-8 PM
\nGallery Talk:<\/strong> Thursday, September 28, 2017 at 7 PM<\/p>\n