Dither
Dither has joined the collection of the Oregon State University in Corvalis, Oregon with support from the Oregon Arts Commission and the %Art Project, 2026
Dither, handwoven tapestry in mixed fibers, 31.25 x 21”, 2023
West Seattle NameDraft, handwoven overshot weave in cotton fibers with weaving draft, 10.5 x 14", 2026
West Seattle NameDraft
This artwork was commissioned by Sound Transit for as part of their Tapestry of West Seattle poster series made in support of the upcoming West Seattle link Light Rail station. The central textile featured in this piece was woven as a self-designed NameDraft tapestry in which the words ‘West Seattle’ were translated letter by letter into a unique thread pattern. The poster image includes both the textile as an example of that completed namedraft, as well as the black-and-white thread pattern, tie-up, and treadling. West Seattle NameDraft was published as a gift to all who may wish to weave their own cloths in celebration of this Seattle neighborhood’s special connection and environmental beauty.
Ripple Structure
Ripple Structure has joined the collection of the Mary Bridge Children's Hospital in Tacoma Washington with support from NINE dot ARTS, 2025
Ripple Structure, handwoven digital jacquard tapestry in cotton, and wool fibers, 24 x 41.25”, 2021
Wavering Vine
For this installation, Wavering Vine, visual artist Allyce 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, only to solidify in certain sections, giving the effect that it is floating on the work’s surface with a determined clarity.
This piece is exhibited in the window of 12315 Lake City Way NE, Seattle from October 2025 - February 2026 with support from Seattle Restored.
Wavering Vine, handwoven textile in wool fibers with acrylic warp-painting, 61 x 22”, 2025
Daylights, hand-knit tapestry made using a punchcard knitting machine, reclaimed acrylic fibers, 10 x 16 feet, 2022
photos courtesy of Pete Fleming & Jo Cosme
Artist Allyce Wood creates textiles using a series of methods and tools with a focus on coded processes. Daylights is an installation of intricately patterned textile panels, shifting color and design as they stretch upwards. Using a domestic knitting machine, a tool used in the 60’s and 70’s for garment making at home, Wood created a series of punch cards which were fed through the machine to create repeated two-color designs. Each panel is made up of rows of tiny individual stitches. The artist pushes and pulls a carriage laced with yarn across the machine’s bed of two hundred needles, which reach out to grab the yarns as they are carried over. This action is repeated between seven hundred and a thousand times to create each piece of the installation.
The panels are composed of images of friends, flowers, and suns, rising mists and playful beasts, the pixelated symbols based on the artist's own designs and medieval tapestry. All these icons and effects give a sense of shifting days, of the past and the present coming together, a new system of symbols creating a language of warmth and abundance. Within the contexts of the soft, familiar material of the yarns, Daylights aims to create a welcoming sense of positive horizons.
This installation was shown through Shunpike Storefronts in South Lake Union, Seattle from October 2022 - January 2023.
Daylights
Tidal Bouquet, vinyl mesh printed with digital paintings. Multiple sections, each measuring 3 × 6’
Tidal Bouquet
Tidal Bouquet illustrates a matrix of local oceanic flora and fauna, creative interpretations of the species often encountered in the tide pools of Edmonds beach. Here seaweeds react to currents, grasses collect like bouquets of flowers, and sea stars reveal themselves. As an imaginary tide sways this bounty, the elements interweave and connect, going with the flow together.
Visual artist Allyce Wood works with digital painting and woven processes in her work to concepts of legacy, bounty, and optimism. ’Tidal Bouquet’ was created in an effort to speak to the eco-diversity we have the honor of witnessing in our shared environment, as well as creating a sense of wonder and interconnection.
Tidal Bouquet is made in support of the City of Edmonds. This installation was located at 201 2nd Ave S, Edmonds WA. The series was exhibited from March 2023 - September 2023.
Visual artist Allyce Wood's large scale drawings depict our changing city and the waterways that connect us. With colors borrowed from this specific environment, she uses digital means to create new views of our surroundings, incorporating symbols like ribbons, currents and streams, and raindrops to speak to shifts and changes, pools and weather fronts. This series tells the story of the constant pull of water in all of its changeable states.
FLOW is made in support of Seattle Office of Arts and Culture. Landscape, Tapestry, Collage, and Waterway were located at the Fremont site near Leary Wy NW & NW 45th St, Seattle, WA 98107. The series was exhibited from August 2022 - February 2023.
FLOW
FLOW (Landscape, Tapestry, Collage, and Waterway), vinyl mesh printed with digital paintings. Multiple sections, each measuring 4 × 6’
SR3 SeaLife Response, Rehabilitation, and Research privacy screen, vinyl mesh printed with digital paintings. Multiple sections, each ranging between 7-10' heights and 3 - 144' length
Wood was selected by the City of Des Moines and SR3 for the opportunity to create this one-of-a-kind artwork to function as a privacy screen for their veterinary workspace at the Des Moines Marina. Each unique image was made in collaboration with the Marine Biologists of SR3 to create pleasing and accurate representations of local flora and fauna in order to catch the curiosity of the public and inform our community about the beautiful animals of the Pacific Northwest.
This vinyl fence wrap is a permanent installation at 2003 S 216th Street, 98811, Des Moines, Washington. The installation was completed in 2021.
SR3 SeaLife Response, Rehabilitation, and Research privacy screen
Progression Grid, latex paint and sealant on Dibond panels, 4 x 8' each
Progression Grid is a graphic mural intended to explore the elements of change brought by development and the passing of time. In reference to the city that surrounds it, abstracted images culminate to describe elements of expansion, inclusion, and evolution as brought by both cultural and natural efforts.
The three panels act as a triptych, and can be read sequentially from either direction or as a complete single image. Each panel is broken up into a grid of cells and painted with symbols and patterns compiled of interpretive symbols (arrows, stone, leaves, steel infrastructure, folded fabric, etc.) to describe the flow of time and the archaeological settling of material.
The piece was on view throughout Sound Transit's Light Rail Station construction on Brooklyn Ave NE and 43rd street in the University District of Seattle, USA. It was on view from 2015 - 2018
Progression Grid
mylar, hand-cut mesh textiles, and found objects with overlaid digital video projection, dimensions variable, 2014
This installation was made thanks to the support of the City Artist Program through the Office of Arts & Culture and Storefronts Bellevue. All photos courtesy of Pete Fleming.