Rachel Mica Weiss

Rachel Mica Weiss is an artist in Sunset Park. She creates sculptures combining carved marble and alabaster with cast concrete and dyed nylon rope, exploring how barriers and constraints can be reimagined through material form.

Rachel Mica Weiss combines the visual language of textiles with the density of stone and cast forms—components that balance uneasily, vie for dominance, or are inextricably intertwined. Her sculptures sit between adornment and confinement, asking what it means to be held. Working with hand-carved marble and alabaster, cast concrete, dyed nylon rope, and spinning marble spheres, Weiss pursues a single question across scale and material: what does it mean to reimagine barriers—architectural, topographical, psychological—as something other than absolute? She draws attention to the constraints within our physical and psychological spaces, asking us to reimagine those so-called barriers as flexible, passable, porous. Recent work explores time itself through kinetic elements and the natural weathering of stone.