Wilmington, DE- The Delaware Center for the Contemporary Arts presents SQUIGGLElinear, works by Creighton Michael, on exhibit through August 17, 2008.

Creighton Michael creates interrelated works in painting, drawing, and sculpture. He sets up a dialogue between painting and sculpture that supports a careful and thorough approach to the creative endeavor, and which originates from the artist�s interest in drawing. The conceptual underpinnings of his work is the practice of drawing and the movement of line in space, whether that line is painted, drawn, or dimensional.

Michael�s sculptures refer to the transitory nature of installation and the concrete character of materials. In all of his works there is a sense of the fleeting and of the momentary that acts as counterpoint to their implied history.

Michael holds graduate degrees from Vanderbilt University (MA) and Washington University in St. Louis (MFA). He has taught and lectured at Princeton University, Hunter College, the Rhode Island School of Design and other institutions. He has received numerous fellowships and grants, and a Golden Foundation for the Arts Award. The artist�s work is in the collections of the Brooklyn Museum, Denver Art Museum, the High Museum of Art, the Mint Museums, the National Gallery of Art, and the Neuberger Museum of Art.

About the DCCA The DCCA, a non-collecting art museum founded in 1979, presents more than 30 exhibitions annually in its seven galleries. Works of regionally, nationally, and internationally recognized artists explore topical issues in contemporary art and society. The DCCA hosts lectures, tours, and symposia, and provides 27 studios for working artists, who exhibit regularly within its galleries and throughout the region.

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