Résumé
Selected Solo Exhibitions
CURSIVE: Creighton Michael, Belger Arts Center, Kansas City, Missouri;
2008
Creighton Michael, Lesley Heller Gallery, New York City; 2008
SQUIGGLElinear, Center for the Arts, Towson University, Baltimore, Maryland;
2007 travels to the Delaware Center for the Contemporary Arts, Wilmington,
Delaware; 2008
Creighton Michael, Hafnarfjörður Institute of Culture and Fine
Arts, Hafnarfjörður, Iceland, 2008
Creighton Michael, Martin Art Gallery, Muhlenberg College, Allentown,
PA; 2008
Graphite: Drawings and Installation Works, Robischon Gallery, Denver,
Colorado; 2006
Paintings: Creighton Michael, Galerie Egelund, Copenhagen, Denmark;
2006
Intersection: Works by Creighton Michael, The Arts Center, St.Petersburg,
Florida; 2006
•VantagePoint IV Creighton Michael: Patterns of Perception, Mint Museums,
Charlotte, North Carolina; 2005
Articulated Spaces: Paintings by Creighton Michael, University of Richmond
Museums, Richmond, VA; 2003
Creighton Michael: Dialects of Line selected works 1985-2003, Collaborative
Concepts,
Beacon, NY: 2003 (includes a collaborative installation with composer,
John Morton)
Mark To Multiple, The von Liebig Art Center, Naples, FL: 2003
Between: New Paintings and Wall Drawings, Kenise Barnes Fine Arts, Larchmont,
New York; 2002
Robischon Gallery, Denver, CO; 2003, 1999, 1997, 1994, 1992, 1990
Haiku/Innuendo: Paintings by Creighton Michael, Neuberger Museum of
Art, Purchase, NY; 2001 (brochure)
Stitch: Works by Creighton Michael (1976-1999), Freedman Gallery, Albright
College, Reading, PA; 2001 (catalogue)
Visual Matrix: Paintings/Drawings (1997-1999), Elmhurst Art Museum,
Elmhurst, IL; 2001
(exhibition essay by John Brunetti)
Intuitive Drawing: Sculpture/Drawings (1985-1999), Kim Foster Gallery,
NYC; 1999
(exhibition essay by Ann Landi)
Reynolds Gallery, Richmond, Virginia; 1999
Galerie Trois Points, Montreal Canada; 1999
Creighton Michael: Painting (1995-1998), The Queens Museum of Art at
Bulova Corporate Center, Queens, NY; 1998
Markings: Works by Creighton Michael (1985-1997), Birke Art Gallery,
Marshall University, Huntington, WV; 1998
Kim Foster Gallery, NYC; 1997, 1996, 1995
Line Play: Sculpture/Drawing (1991-1996), Cantor Fitzgerald Gallery,
Haverford College, Haverford, PA; 1997
Creighton Michael: Marks and Metaphor/Drawings (1990-1995), Vanderbilt
University, Nashville, TN; 1996 (catalogue)
Creighton Michael: Landscape, Katonah Museum of Art, Katonah, NY; 1994
(catalogue essay by Cynthia Nadelman)
New Sculpture and Drawings, Littlejohn Contemporary, NYC; 1992 (exhibition
essay Eleanor Heartney)
Drawing Sculpture, San Antonio Art Institute, San Antonio, TX; 1992
Creighton Michael: Constructions 1990, Ruth Siegel Gallery, NYC; 1991
(catalogue essay by Nancy Princenthal)
Pence Gallery, Santa Monica, CA; 1990, 1988
Haines Gallery, San Francisco, CA; 1990
LedisFlam Gallery, Brooklyn, NY; 1989
Nina Freudenheim Gallery, Buffalo, NY; 1988
David Beitzel Gallery, NYC; 1988
Art At The Edge: Creighton Michael, High Museum of Art, Atlanta, GA;
1987 traveled to St. Louis Gallery of
Contemporary Art, St. Louis, Missouri; 1988; (catalogue essay by Susan
Krane)
Craig Cornelius Gallery, NYC; 1987, 1985
Selected Group Exhibitions
Leaded: The Materiality and Metamorphosis of Graphite, University
of Richmond Museums, Richmond, VA; 2007 travels through 2009
Material Matter, Sideshow Gallery, Brooklyn, New York; 2007
Cursive, Artist Commune, Hong Kong, China; 2007
Monumental Drawings, Blue Star Contemporary Art Center, San Antonio,
TX; 2007 (Barbara MacAdam, curator)
Continuum, celebrating the Seventieth Anniversary of the American Abstract
Artists, St. Peter's College Art Gallery, Jersey City, NJ; 2007
Current, Robischon Gallery, Denver, CO; 2007
EELight, a collaboration with Bill FitzGibbons, the LAB, New York City;
2006
GRID: Structure and Process, Kreft Gallery, Concordia University, Ann
Arbor, MI; 2006 travels to Wooster Arts Space, NYC; 2007
SENSi/aBLE SPACES: Space, Art and the Environment, University of Iceland,
Reykjavík, Iceland; 2006
GROUP 1, Lesley Heller Gallery, New York, New York; 2006
PAGES, I Space, University of Illinois, College of Fine and Applied
Arts, Chicago, IL; 2005 (organized by Buzz Spector)
Optical Simulations, Yellow Bird Gallery, Newburgh, New York; 2005
IDEAL: Selections from the American Abstract Artists, Metaphor Contemporary
Art, Brooklyn, New York; 2005
In Line, Rockland Center for the Arts, West Nyack, New York; 2005 (brochure)
Cursive, Tenri Cultural Institute of New York, NYC; 2005 (brochure)
Dimensional Line: Recent Work by Sharon Louden and Creighton Michael,
Munson-Williams-Proctor Arts Institute
Museum of Art, Utica, NY; 2004 (brochure)
Synthesis: Experiments in Collaboration Grossman Gallery, Lafayette
College, Easton, PA; 2003; Axel Raben Gallery,
New York City; 2004
The Essence of Line, Concordia Gallery, Concordia College, Bronxville,
NY; 2004
Art in Embassies Exhibition, Zagreb, Croatia; 2003-2006
Art in Embassies Exhibition, Nicosia, Cyprus; 1999-2002
Body Language, Islip Art Museum, East Islip, NY; 2002
Outside In, Arvada Center for the Art and Humanities, Arvada, CO; 2002
•" Reactions:" ExitArt/The First World, NYC; 2002
Body Work, The Workspace, NYC; 2001
Act of Drawing, Tompkins College Center Gallery, Cedar Crest College,
Allentown, PA; 2001
Lines, Kiang Gallery, Atlanta, GA; 2001
RE: Drawing, Kenise Barnes Fine Art, Larchmont, NY; 2001
Another Story Altogether: Abstraction in Painting Today, Castle Gallery,
College of New Rochelle, NY; 2000
End Papers: 1890-1900 and 1990-2000. Neuberger Museum of Art, Purchase,
NY; 2000 (catalogue)
Abstraction, Robert Kidd Gallery, Birmingham, MI; 1999
Selected Works From The New York Collection, Albright- Knox Art Gallery,
Buffalo, NY; 1999
Small Abstractions, Kim Foster Gallery, NYC; 1999
MA(R)KING: A Survey of Artist Mark Making in 1999, Central Arts, Tucson,
AZ; 1999
Cynthia Hawkins/ Creighton Michael, Hopper House Art Center, Nyack,
NY; 1995
Natural Fantasy, Choate House Gallery, Pace University, Pleasantville,
NY; 1995
Drop Dead Painting, 103 Reade Street, 2nd Floor, partially funded by
the Igor Foundation, NYC; 1994
A View To The Future: Recent Acquisitions, David Winton Bell Gallery,
Brown University, Providence, RI; 1994
1994 National Drawing Invitational, Arkansas Art Center, Little Rock,
AR; 1994 (catalogue)
Art on Paper, Weatherspoon Art Gallery, University of North Carolina,
Greensboro, NC; 1993 (catalogue)
First Sightings: Recent Modern and Contemporary Acquisitions, Denver
Art Museum, Denver CO; 1993
55 Ferris Street III, 55 Ferris Street, Brooklyn, NY; 1993 (catalogue)
Seven Sculptures, Mandeville Gallery, University of California, San
Diego, CA; 1990
Working on Paper: Contemporary American Drawings. High Museum of Art,
Atlanta, GA; 1990
In the Making: Drawings by Sculptors, The Sculpture Center, NYC; 1988
Innovations in Sculpture, Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Ridgefield,
CT; 1988
Education
Washington University, St. Louis, Missouri, M.F.A.; 1978 (Painting/Multi-Media)
Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee, M.A.; 1976 (Art History)
University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Tennessee, B.F.A. Honors; 1971 (Painting)
Selected Teaching
Visiting Assistant Professor of Art, Hunter College, New York, NY, 2005
to present
The Arts Center, St. Petersburg, FL, 2005 (dimensional drawing workshops)
Adjunct Faculty, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI; 1986-1997,
2004 (drawing, 2-D / 3-D design)
Visiting Lecturer, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ; 2003 (adv. sculpture),
2001, 2000, 1998 (drawing)
Visiting Artist, University of Richmond, VA; 2003 (lecture),
Visiting Artist, Anderson Ranch Art Center, Aspen, CO; 2003 (painting
workshop)
Visiting Artist, Albright College, Reading, PA; 2002, 2001 (lecture
/ critic)
Visiting Artist, Purchase College, SUNY, Purchase, NY; 2001 (drawing)
1988 (sculpture)
Visiting Artist, V.C.U., Richmond, VA; 1991,1999,2003 (lecture / workshop)
2004 (lecture/critic)
Visiting Artist, Marshall University, Huntington, WV; 1998 (lecture)
Critic, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA; 1995-1996
Guest Artist, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA;
1995 (sculpture)
Visiting Artist, Haverford College, Haverford, PA; 1997, 1993 (lecture)
Visiting Artist, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI; 1991,
1986 (lecture)
Visiting Artist, Muhlenberg College, Allentown, PA; 1999, 1991, 1986
(critic/lecture)
Visiting Professor of Painting, SUNY, Buffalo, NY; 1985 (painting)
Selected Collections
American Express
AT&T
Edward Albee
The John and Maxine Belger Family Foundation, Kansas City, Missouri
David Winton Bell Gallery, Brown University
The Brooklyn Museum
Denver Art Museum
High Museum of Art
Markel Service, Inc., Richmond, VA
Mint Museum of Art, Charlotte, North Carolina
Munson-Williams-Proctor Institute Museum of Art
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Neuberger Museum of Art, Purchase, New York
New York University
Pfizer, Inc
Progressive Corporation
Prudential
R.I.S.D. Museum of Art
Wilbur Ross
Prof. Pieter Sanders (Holland)
University of Richmond Museums
Vanderbilt University
Weatherspoon Art Gallery, UNC
Selected Bibliography
Anon. "Itinerary," SCULPTURE, Volume 24, Number 3, Washington,
D.C., April 2005; page15 (Squiggle, 2005)
Anon. Arts & Antiques, October 1988; page 52, (Cromlech, 1987)
Bass, Ruth." Up Now, New York Reviews"; Creighton Michael:
Kim Foster, ARTnews, Volume 98, Number 8,
New York City, September 1999; page 145 (PM 793, 1993)
Brenson, Michael. " Forces of Nature," The New York Times,
New York City, 27 July 1990; Section C, p. 22
Brenson, Michael. " Sculpture Breaks the Mold of Minimalism",
The New York Times, New York City,
23 November 1986; page 33
Brunetti, John. " The Transcendentalism of Creighton Michael",
exhibition essay, Visual Matrix;
Paintings/Drawings 1997-1999, Elmhurst Art Museum, Elmhurst, IL; 2000
Castle, Ted. " Review of Exhibitions: Creighton Michael at David
Beitzel and Pence", Art in America, New York City,
May 1989; page 204, (Widsith 2, 1988)
Cameron, Dan. " Ten To Watch," Arts Magazine, Volume 61, No.1,
New York City, September 1986; pages 40-42
( Luftschiff Richter, 1986 )
Dickenson, Carol V. " Denver: Creighton Michael: Robischon," ARTnews,
Volume 94, Number 4, New York City,
April 1995; page 154 (Interval 194, 1994)
Donohoe, Victoria. " Entwining Drawing and Sculpture," The
Philadelphia Inquirer, Philadelphia, PA, 21 September,
1997; p 11 (Narrative 196, 1996)
Dreishpoon, Douglas. An introductory essay for the exhibition catalogue,
The Sculptural Membrane, Sculpture Center
New York City; (Blind Horn, 1985)
Frank, Peter. " Art Picks of the Week", L.A. Weekly, Vol.
12, No. 51; 1990
Frank, Peter. " Constructed Image/Constructed Object", for
the exhibition catalogue Constructed Image/Constructed
Object, Alternative Museum, New York City; 1984; page 16-17 (Bishop-Widow,
1982), (Cloakwing, 1982)
Genocchio, Benjamin. "Some Rich Pickings For the Art Lover",
The New York Times, New York City, October 2, 2005; WE, page 6
Goodman, Jonathan. Review of Exhibitions: "Creighton Michael at
Kim Foster", Art in America, New York City,
July 1998; page 98 (Dust 897, 1997)
Handy, Ellen. " New York In Review: Creighton Michael" Arts
Magazine, New York City, January 1989;
pages 98 and 99
Hanzal, Carla. Creighton Michael: Patterns of Perception, catalogue
essay, Mint Museum of Art, Charlotte, North Carolina, 2005
Harper, Glen. " Reviews", Art Papers, Vol. III, No. 6, November-December
1987; pages 50 and 51 (Bishop-Widow, 1982)
Iwasaki, Hitomi. Creighton Michael: Paintings 1995-1998, exhibition
essay, Queens Museum of Art
at Bulova Corporate Center, Queens, New York; 1998 (Notation 598, 1998)
Johnson, Ken. " Art Guide," The New York Times, New York City,
7 November 1997; Ep38
Keane, Dan, "Living History" NY Arts November/December 2005,
vol.10, No.11/12; pages 78 and79 (Field 3405, 2005)
Lombardi, D. Dominick. "Beacon, New York: Creighton Michael," SCULPTURE,
Volume 23, No.7,
September, 2004; pages 68-69 (Luftschiff 4, 1986)
Melrod, George. " Reviews/Creighton Michael," ARTnews, New
York City, October 1992; page 136
(Conifer 1292, 1992)
Melrod, George. " Reviews/Creighton Michael", ARTnews, New
York City, March 1991; page 136; (Navigator4, 1990)
Myers, Terry R. " What's My Line?", catalogue essay, non-paginated.
Out of Line II: Abstract Painting and Sculpture,
The Police Building, OIA, New York City, 1994 (MP 793, 1993)
Nadelman, Cynthia. " Recent Drawings by Sculptors: A Common Language," Drawing,
New York City, July-August
1994; page 25-28 (Aquifer, 1993)
Nadelman, Cynthia. " Gabo's Progeny", ARTnews, New York City,
December 1987; pages 123-127, (Spiderwing, 1987),
(Auk, 1987) and a portrait of the artist
Naves, Mario, " Currently Hanging; Creighton Michael; Strength
in Sculpture," The New York Observer, New York City,
11 October 1999; page 17
Princenthal, Nancy, Creighton Michael: Constructions 1990, essay, Ruth
Siegel Gallery, New York City;
1991; non-paginated
Ryan, Paul, Reviews / Mid-Atlantic: Richmond, Virginia, ART PAPERS,
Atlanta, Georgia, January / February 2004,
page 46 (Pulse 401) 2001
Schwendenwein, Jude. " Creighton Michael: Review," Artforum,
New York City, January 1989;
page 117 (Dunadd, 1986)
Tanguy, Sarah. "Creighton Michael: Center for the Arts Gallery,
Towson University," SCULPTURE, Volume 26, No.7, September 2007; pages
73-74 (SQUIGGLElinearB206)
Vicker, Marcia. " Bullish in Bankruptcy", Business Week, New
York City, 1 April 2002; page 71, (Dow Cow, 2000)
Wei, Lilly. " Creighton Michael and Bill FitzGibbons: EELight",
ARTLIES, Houston, Texas, Spring 2007; page 121
Westfall, Stephen. " Review of Exhibitions: Creighton Michael at
Craig Cornelius," Art in America, New York City,
page 158 (Kyoto, 1986)
Wilkin, Karen. " At the Galleries," Partisan Review, Boston,
MA, Vol. LXVI, No. 4; 1999; page 647
Wolfe, Townsend, 5th Biennial National Drawing Invitational, The Arkansas
Art Center, Little Rock, Arkansas; 1994;
pages 49-51, page 50 (Aerial 393), 1993) page 51 (Aquifer, 1993)
Zimmer. William "Shadows and Clarity, in Quietly Elegant Lines",
The New York Times, New York, New York,
26 October, 2003; WE, page10 (63001, 2001)
Zimmer. William " For Artists, a Vacation Just Means a New Landscape",
The New York Times, New York City,
3 June 2001; WE, page 12 (photograph of the artist)