Current Exhibitions
"FILAMENT: The work of Bill FitzGibbons and Creighton Michael", Ewing Gallery, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Tennessee; September 16-October 31, 2010
FILAMENT, an interaction between light and line, combines the sequenced light simulations of Bill FitzGibbons with Creighton Michael’s dimensional drawing to create an environment, in which the viewer encounters the tangible nature and sensual pleasure of drawing. By employing, as the primary light source, a collaged video loop of both artists captured in various marking activities, FILAMENT fuses the viewer’s participation in real time with the artists’ historical marking segments. As in their previous collaboration, EELight 2006, FitzGibbons and Michael continue to weave the ethereal with the material transforming the gallery’s visible envelop into multiple layers of shifting space inhabited not only by the physical remnants of drawing activity but also the apparitions of past action. Unlike EELight, where the viewer was simply allowed a vicarious experience observing a fantastic theater of light and objects through a glass barrier, FILAMENT encourages the viewer to physically explore through time, space and sound, the episodic process of drawing.
link FILAMENT
link FILAMENT exhibition
"Tangible Marking: The Dimensional Drawings of Creighton Michael," Esther Massry Gallery, The College of Saint Rose, Albany, New York; November 14, 2010-January 23, 2011.
link Esther Massry Gallery
"Tangible Marking: The Dimensional Drawings of Creighton Michael,"
is an exhibition of selected three-dimensional works from his varied and ongoing series beginning in 2002. Included are works from such series as GLYPH, GRID, RHAPSODY, SEGMENT, SQUIGGLE, and TUCK, which focus primarily on the mark, how it is formed and with what material. Later works explore the mark as a collective time unit or marking episode. By interpreting the individual works and their previous incarnations, each student participates as a collaborator with the artist as they install or “redraw” each piece. In so doing, the student examines various facets of drawing, its process and material composition as well as drawing's involvement with emerging patterns. During this investigation, the student begins to understand that drawing is more than the mere act of depicting; drawing is simply a marking system related to other marking systems like musical notation and calligraphy. With this realization, the student is able to discover new avenues of articulation with a greater appreciation for the medium of drawing.
"CURSIVE: Works by Creighton Michael," Belger Arts Center, Kansas City, Missouri; March 7- June 6, 2008
link to Pitch review
"New Work: Creighton Michael," Lesley Heller Gallery, New York City;
Thursday, May 1- Friday, June 6, 2008
link to Lesley Heller Gallery
link to exhibition video
"SQUIGGLElinear," Center for the Arts, Towson University, Baltimore, Maryland; 2007 travels to the Delaware Center for the Contemporary Arts,
Wilmington, Delaware; May 14-August 17, 2008
"Wavelengths: The Drawings of Creighton Michael," Hafnarborg, Hafnarfjördur, Iceland, July 26-August 25, 2008 and Start Art,
Reykjavík, Iceland; July 31- August 27, 2008
link Hafnarborg
"PLANE DRAWING," The Baker Center for the Arts, Martin Art Gallery, Muhlenberg College, Allentown, Pennsylvania;
November 19, 2008 - January 10, 2009
link to Martin Art Gallery
link to Muhlenberg College
"CIPHER," NCC Art Gallery, Norwalk Community College, Norwalk, Connecticut; November 5, 2008-January 24, 2009
link to CIPHER
GROUP EXHIBITIONS:
"CONSTRUCTED VISIONS,"Woodmere Art Museum, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; May 15-August 22, 2010
link to Woodmere Art Museum
"Five Centuries of Drawing: A Selection from the Vanderbilt University Fine Arts Gallery Collection,"Fine Arts Gallery, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee; June 3–September 23, 2010
link to Vanderbilt University Fine Arts Gallery
"Beneath The Surface: Excavating the Belger Collection,"Belger Arts Center, Kansas City, Missouri; February 22-August 6, 2010
link to Belger Arts Center
"Surface Tension: Pattern, Texture, and Rhythm in Art from the Collection", University of Richmond Museums, Richmond, Virginia; March 20-May 14, 2010
Leaded: The Materiality and Metamorphosis of Graphite, University of Richmond Museums, Richmond, VA; 2007 travels through 2009
link to LEADED
link to LEADED pdf
link to LEADED at the University of Rochester, Memorial Art Gallery
link to LEADED at Art Museum of South Texas
link to LEADED at Yellowstone Museum of Art
"Monumental Drawings", Blue Star Contemporary Art Center, San Antonio, TX; 2007 (Barbara MacAdam, curator)
Review
Review
EELight Review
EELight video
Other Links
link to Robert C. Morgan's article, "Creighton Michael and the Origins of Marking"
link to AboutDrawing.org
link to ISC Portfolio
link to ISC
link to Dimensional Line exhibition essay
link to The Solaris Group
link to Creighton Michael: Patterns of Perception
link to Articulated Spaces: Paintings by Creighton Michael
link to American Abstract Artists
link to Migräne Aura
link to Pollock-Krasner Foundation
link to The LAB
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