Allyce Wood lives and works in Seattle. Through the use of digital and handmade processes, Wood makes installations, works on paper, and textiles with a focus on digital jacquard tapestries. To her, the loom acts as a mediator between traditional and computerized technologies, offering a unique way to combine online and offline experiences into images in cotton and wool.

Wood is a collector of technologies and threads. In the studio, she creates textiles on her mid-century Bergman floor loom, a passed-down marudai, and a knitting machine from the 1960s that she restored piece by piece. Every process tells a story of a different code system. Punch cards and graph paper are as vital as the bleeding watercolors she paints with. This passion for systems, for breakable rules, stems from a lifelong curiosity of reason and rule-bending.

From 2015 - 2019, Wood lived in Oslo, Norway. Here she had the opportunity to learn digital jacquard tapestry, a mechanized process based on pixel binary. Through this medium, she was able to merge her digital and physical life together into soft, familiar material. This experience led to factory-scale projects, working with fabricators and industrial machines, as well as hand-driven weaving projects in Iceland and Scandinavia.

Wood considers public engagement a vital part of her practice and is always seeking ways to share and connect. The opportunity for community involvement, information sharing, and connection drives her to pursue exhibitions, public projects, and publications into which others may enter.