Spring Hurlbut: Airborne

Spring Hurlbut
Artist

Spring Hurlbut (b. 1952, Canada) lives and works in Toronto. She studied at the Ontario College of Art—now OCAD University—and the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design. Hurlbut’s work can be found in many private and public collections, and has been exhibited in numerous national and international venues, such as the Musee d'art contemporain de Montreal (2009), the National Gallery of Canada in Ottawa (2010), the 4th International Photography Festival F/Stop in Leipzig, Germany (2010), the Art Gallery of Ontario in Toronto (2013), the Salzburger Kunstverein in Salzburg, Austria (2014) and the New Orleans Museum of Art (2015). Hurlbut is represented by Georgia Sherman Projects in Toronto.

Dr. Gaelle Morel
Curator

Dr. Gaelle Morel is an art historian and Exhibitions Curator at The Image Centre (formerly Ryerson Image Centre), Toronto, Canada. She received her PhD in the History of Contemporary Art from Universite Paris 1 – Pantheon-Sorbonne, France. Her research and recent work deal with the figure of the artist as author in French contemporary photography. She also works on the artistic and cultural recognition of the medium in the United States in the 1930s. She was, until 2013, a member of the board of the Societe francaise de photographie, and a member of the editorial committee of Etudes photographiques, a bilingual peer reviewed journal on the history of photography. She edited Les Derniers Tableaux. Photojournalisme et art contemporain (Paris: Editions des Archives Contemporaines, 2008) and co-wrote with Thierry Gervais La Photographie published by Editions Larousse in France (2008, 2011). She was a recipient of a Terra Foundation for American Art Travel Grant in 2007, for her work on the American art dealer Julien Levy who closely worked with Berenice Abbott in the 1920s and 1930s.