All Work and No Play

Micah Lewis-Văn Sweezie produces ceramic and sculptural works to investigate themes of labor, fragility, memory, globalization, and material history. Her practice is heavily informed by historical research and is
often inspired by revolutionary events and personal ancestral histories. Correlations between
human intervention and industrial production are the crux of her work. These correlations
broaden realities of understanding around our physical world, product origins, and our
relationship to industrialized material. Sweezie’s forms are posed as recognizable and minimal to
reflect their origins while simultaneously contrasting themselves through alternative mediums
and processes. Material value is also central to her practice. Sweezie employs an assortment of
mediums such as porcelain, latex, bronze, rubber, rice paper, gold gilding, and found objects.
Through these materials, she aspires to reposition suppressed relational histories within global
and institutional perceptions.