Caitlin Rose Sweet is an American ceramic artist.
Sweet's work includes "anatomical" cannabis pipes and LBTQ themes. [1] [2] She was featured in a queer-themed "Rough Trade" exhibition at Allegheny College [3] and an exhibition at Albany Center Gallery in which Sweet's work was described as containing "allusions to anatomy and domesticity [which] examine how images and objects establish or perpetuate cultural identities." [4]
Her 2016 exhibition "Snake in the Grass," was inspired by Hieronymus Bosch's 15th-century The Garden of Earthly Delights , with a "queer-feminine overhaul" according to Vice . [5] This, and other pieces, have been described as "sculptural pieces that impressively mix elements of grotesque and feminine". [6]
Sweet is from a "small town in America" and her work "simultaneously embraces Americana and folk traditions while exposing the social constructs (and constraints) surrounding them". [7] As of 2016 [update] , she resided in Brooklyn. [2]
[H]ailing from small towns in America, Caitlin Rose Sweet and Ben Pinder make work which simultaneously embraces Americana and folk traditions while exposing the social constructs (and constraints) surrounding them.