MICHAEL DWECK "More than 40 International awards"
About Michael Dweck:
Michael Dweck is a contemporary American photographer, filmmaker and visual artist. Dweck's narrative photography explores the ongoing struggles between identity and adaptation in endangered societal enclaves. It has a deep sense of place and community. His work is therefore generally situated in a very lively geographical and social context. His work has been the subject of solo exhibitions around the world and is included in important international art collections. Notable series of works include The End: Montauk, N.Y., 2004, an idyllic and sensual portrait of the famous fishing community, offering an idealized glimpse into the lives of the magnificent inhabitants who made up its surfing subculture . It tells a heavenly tale of summer and youth, which blends idealism and documentation to reflect a place and way of life both in decline and reinvented. Michael Dweck: Mermaids, 2009, an impressionistic underwater dreamscape populated by “children of the rivers” in rural Florida; and Habana Libre, 2010, a prophetic tale that contrasts the privileged lifestyles of Cuba's creative class with the context of the collapse of a so-called "classless" society, making him the first American artist living in have a solo exhibition at a museum in Cuba. His latest project, Blunder bust, explores every angle of a low-stakes stock car racing circuit through a wildly ambitious and impressive mix of sculpture, installation, abstract painting, photography and contextual film. Dweck studied fine arts at the Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, New York, and began his career in advertising where he became a highly regarded creative director, receiving more than 40 international awards, including the coveted Lion gold at the Cannes International Festival in France. Two of his feature-length television films are in the permanent film collection at the Museum of Modern Art in New York. Michael Dweck currently lives in New York and Montauk, N.Y., where he is finishing his first feature film.
