Alice Wiese is a textile artist based in Marin County, California. Wiese draws inspiration from architectural patterns such as wrought iron fences, tiles, and brick, and antique embroidery books, but always works the organic or unexpected into these ordered paths. Using only white thread, she experiments with the direction of her stitches, and how the light reacts to the thread. In the active surface of each of her works, the viewer experiences undulating dimension and a compelling and ever-present tension between order and chaos.
Alice Wiese received a BFA in Textiles from California College of the Arts in Oakland, CA in 2012. In 2018 she received a scholarship to show her work at West Coast Craft and completed a residency at Penland School of Craft in the Blue Ridge mountains of North Carolina. Wiese has also has traveled to Australia and Japan to learn about different textile techniques, fabrics, and fibers. Her work has been shown in galleries and museums both locally and globally. In 2018 she was featured in San Francisco Design Week and in 2019 her work was shown at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in Tokyo.