Allison Wiese

(c) 2004 Chris Baker

Tennessee Beacon, 2005 Solar audio system, utility pole, flagpole, flag & hardware 22’ 5” x 21” x 18” This installation includes the University of Tennessee flag accompanied by a solar audio system that plays the Rocky Top fight song periodically throughout the course of the day. This intentionally funky, cobbled together collection of consumer electrics seizes part of Long Island City for the University of Tennessee.

Born 1969
Lives and works in Houston, TX

Education
2000 M.F.A., University of California at San Diego; La Jolla, CA
1999 Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture; Skowhegan, ME
1991 B.A., Brown University, Providence, RI

Selected solo exhibitions and projects include: Vamp, Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, La Jolla, CA (2005); Utica Speed Seduction, Sculpture Space, Utica, NY (2004); and Hay Burner, Lawndale Art Center, Houston, TX (2003).

Selected group exhibitions include: Long Division, Lawndale Art Center, Houston, TX (2005); Farm to Market, ArtPace, San Antonio, TX (2004-05); The Salon Show, Axis Salon, Houston, TX (2004); Texas Prime, Diverse Works, Houston, TX (2004); Siting Sculpture, Dallas Center for Contemporary Art, Dallas, TX (2003); Plugged and Haunted, MAK Center for Art & Architecture, Los Angeles, CA (2003); 2002 Spring Sculpture Exhibition, Connemara Conservancy, Dallas, TX (2002); Core Samples, Galveston Arts Center, Galveston, TX (2002); Trick Babies, VAF Gallery, UCSD, La Jolla, CA (2000); Camouflage, L.C. Bates Museum of Natural History, Hinckley, ME (1999); and Bucking the Texan Myth: Scouting the Third Frontier, Austin Museum of Art, Austin, TX (1996).

Residencies and awards include Djerassi Resident Artists Program, Woodside, CA (2005); McColl Center, Charlotte, NC (2005); Jentel Foundation, Banner, WY (2004); Sculpture Space Residency, Utica, NY (2004); MacDowell Colony, Peterborough, NH (2004), Eliza Randall Prize, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX (2003, 2002); Russell Foundation Grant, La Jolla, CA (1997); and Roberta Joslin Award for Excellence in the Visual Arts, Brown University, Providence, RI (1991).