Surf’s up and summer's endless with this candy mosaic by photographer and filmmaker, Michael Dweck. He replicates a renowned photograph from his bestselling book The End: Montauk, NY so masterfully with candy, that it's tough to discern which is the actual photograph. This mosaic documents the surfing subculture in Montauk most dramatically and sensually through intricate details and the use of non-colored candies. It will make any home feel like a getaway.
Artist: Michael Dweck
Title: Dylan’s Candy Bar Sweet 16 Candy Mosaic Created By Michael Dweck
Year created: 2017
Medium: Candy
Signed by the artist
Height (inches): 31
Width (inches): 23
Depth (inches): 2
This piece is framed.
Description of piece: Crafted with care using Pearls from Dylan’s Candy Bar’s Color Your World.
Michael Dweck is an American contemporary photographer, filmmaker and visual artist. Dweck’s narrative photography explores ongoing struggles between identity and adaptation in endangered societal enclaves. He has a profound sense of place and community, and his work is thus usually situated in a vivid geographic and social context. His work has been featured in solo exhibitions around the world, and is part of important international art collections.
Notable series of works include The End: Montauk, NY, 2004, an idyllic and sensual portrait of the famed fishing community, offering idealized glimpse into the lives of the beautiful denizens who comprised its surfing subculture. It told a paradisiacal narrative about summer and youth, which blended idealism and documentation to reflect a place and a way of life both fading and being reinvented; Mermaids, 2009, an impressionistic underwater dreamscape populated storied river children in rural Florida; and Habana Libre, 2010; a prophetic narrative that contrasted the privileged lifestyle of Cuba’s creative class with the crumbling backdrop of a so-called classless society, which made him the first living American artist to have a solo museum exhibition in Cuba.
His latest project, Blunderbust, explores all angles of a small-stakes stock care racetrack via a wildly ambitious and impressive mélange of sculpture, installation, abstract painting, photography and contextual film. Dweck studied Fine Arts at the Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, NY and went on to become a highly regarded Creative Director receiving over 40 international awards, including the coveted Gold Lion at the Cannes International Festival in France. Two of his long-form television pieces are part of the permanent film collection of The Museum of Modern Art in New York. Dweck currently lives in New York City and Montauk, NY, where he just completed his first feature-length film, The Last Race.
Proceeds from the sale of this art will benefit Film Forum, the only autonomous nonprofit cinema in New York City. Film Forum began in 1970 as a small screening room for independent films. Today, it is a 3-screen cinema in the West Village, with 200,000 – 250,000 annual admissions. The theater is one of the nation's leading non-profit exhibitors of independent film and repertory programming, with an influence that extends nationwide and internationally. Film Forum is currently midway through a campaign to raise $6 million to build a 4th screen, renovate the present facility, and to grow their endowment. Upgrades include installing more comfortable seating, raking the floor for “stadium seating” which will give audiences better sightlines, and building the aforementioned 4th screen in a loading dock that is contiguous with their current space. Construction begins in early 2018 and culminates on July 4, 2018 when the theater will re-open after a two-month hiatus.
The Candy Mosaic Charity Auction is administered by Dylan's Candy BarN and CharityBuzz. Proceeds benefiting the individual charities will be distributed by Dylan's Candy BarN. Dylan's Candy BarN is an exempt organization as described in Section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code.