Wavering Vine

Allyce Wood is a visual artist based in Seattle, WA. Through the use of digital and heritage processes, Wood creates unique woven artworks that speak to the feminist legacy of craft, iconographic histories, and the ever-evolving potential of weaving.

For her Seattle Restored installation, Wavering Vine, Wood utilizes simple tabby weaving structures, painted warp, and complex color matrices to create a textile that bends the rigid grid of the cloth’s pattern into something more organic, fluid, and changing. A violet line submerges itself amongst the wool fibers, spilling outwards as the yarns take on the color as it loops and buds, solidifying in certain sections to give an effect of sudden, determined clarity.

Allyce Wood has been a studio and public artist for over 15 years and has recently exhibited at Gallery 4Culture, the White River Valley Museum, the Tacoma Art Museum, and the Vestibule. Wood has created public art projects with the City of Edmonds, the Seattle Office of Arts and Culture, the City of Burien, and the City of Des Moines in Washington state. She is the gracious recipient of grant support from institutions such as 4Culture, Bildende Kunstneres Hjelpefond, Arts Council Norway, Artist Trust, and the Seattle Office of Arts & Cultural Affairs.