Spring Hurlbut was born in Toronto in 1952 and continues to live and work there. National Gallery of Canada Emerging in the early 1980s, she was recognized at home and abroad for temporary architectural installations that established the themes of presence and absence elaborated throughout her practice. Spring Hurlbut Her work has since evolved to encompass photography, installation, and printmaking, with works held in the permanent collections of the Musée d'art contemporain de Montréal and the National Gallery of Canada. Wikipedia
In 2016, Open Studio invited Hurlbut to work with master printer Kevin Haas on a new publishing print. The resulting project, La Bouche, saw Hurlbut respond to prints by Joyce Wieland held in the Open Studio archive, in which Wieland kissed the lithographic stone to mouth words to O Canada and Squid Jiggin' Grounds. For La Bouche, Hurlbut created three lithograph and screenprint compositions, replicating Wieland's process of mouthing words directly onto the stone. While thematically tied to her 2010 series Shut Up, the three La Bouche prints lighten the mood, adding a bit of 'lip' to contemporary art.
