Staley-Wise Gallery in New York opens this Thursday their new exhibition UNDERWATER featuring work by Howard Schatz and Michael Dweck. In our exclusive film Michael Dweck reflects on his encounter with the Mermaids and the challenges he faced to shoot with them underwater.
https://vimeo.com/100377898
Mermaids (Ditch Plains Press), an international exhibition with accompanying volume photographed in Montauk, Amagansett and the vicinity of the Weeki Wachee River in Florida traces back its origins to moonlit fishing expeditions on Long Island where, seduced by the ancient allure of the mermaid, he imagined the shadowy shapes of fish passing swiftly by just under the surface to be the fleeting forms of beautiful women. Dweck’s images, while often abstracting the female body in a painterly swirl of watery refractions, celebrate the physical charm of the feminine form and the meditative isolation of the underwater world.
EXHIBITION
Underwater
Howard Schatz and Michael Dweck
From July 11th to August 29th, 2014
Staley Wise Gallery
560 Broadway
New York 10012
United States
