Allison Wiese is an interdisciplinary artist who makes sculptures, installations, sound works, and architectural interventions. Wiese’s work has been exhibited throughout the United States at venues such as Machine Project in Los Angeles, The Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego, and Socrates Sculpture Park in New York. She is a recipient of the Louis Comfort Tiffany Award, and she has also received grants from Art Matters, Creative Capital, and the Cultural Arts Council of Houston. Wiese often uses common materials or textual diversions to make meaning with the ready-to-hand. Her project Oh Lonesome Me employed an abandoned PC, an extension ladder, and clamp lamps in a gutted church tower to create a functioning Morse code beacon that attempted to communicate with the Bank of America Tower in downtown Charlotte, NC. Wiese’s work drags ideas through time, re-plumbing the social and political landscape of the near past, as a way of querying the lingering presence of certain American myths and pointing to truths about the present. Wiese is a fellow of the MacDowell Colony, an alumna of the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, and was a Core Fellow of the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston from 2001 to 2003. Wiese has taught studio art for more than fifteen years at a range of institutions including the University of California, San Diego, the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston’s Glassell School and Brown University.