Creighton Michael
Artist Statement:
Over the last five decades, I have explored the perpetual dialogue between mark and pattern, premised on the belief that drawing is primary, not preliminary. My studio practice has centered on drawing activity, referencing other marking systems such as musical notation, shorthand, and calligraphy; the patterning of the natural world; and interventions by chance or accident. Guided by curiosity and intuition, I utilize analog and digital techniques in a variety of media — paint, graphite, thread, intaglio, rope, plywood, among other — to probe the confluence of gesture, language, and time. My process driven investigations into the subtle differences that exist between sight and perception, as well as those between documentation and depicton, have yielded novel approaches to problem solving while opening new pathways for the possibilities of drawing.
Artist Biography:
A grant recipient of a Pollock-Krasner, a NYFA and Golden Foundation award, Michael’s work can be found in various collections including the Brooklyn Museum, High Museum, Metropolitan Museum, National Gallery, McNay Art Museum, Ogden Museum and The Phillips Collection. Michael has had solo exhibitions at the High Museum, Katonah Museum, The Queens Museum Bulova Center, Neuberger Museum and The Mint Museums, as well as numerous galleries and art centers both nationally and internationally. Abroad he has had solo exhibitions in Copenhagen, Montreal, and Reykjavík. As an educator, Michael has been on the faculty at R.I.S.D., Pennsylvania Academy of Art, Princeton University and Hunter College. Recent exhibition credits as a curatorial producer are, The Art of Rube Goldberg; Blurring Boundaries: The Women of American Abstract Artists, 1936—Present; Mutual Muses: The Collaborative Life of James Seawright and Mimi Garrard, and Uncharted: American Abstraction in the Information Age.
AAA:
Member Since: 2004
Previous Committees:
Exhibitions 2005-2022, Archives 2017-2022
