Alyssa Wood grew up in Richmond, VA and Indianapolis, IN.  She sculpts and draws on ceramic tiles as well as on paper with watercolor and ink. The exaggerated forms of ordinary objects like spoons and forks, baby buggies and cheese graters, all barely contained within a line capture the playfulness and the frustrations of domestic life.

Her newest series of tiles is about nostalgia and plays anachronistic objects (typewriters and rotary telephones) and brightly colored objects from rituals of time’s passage (birthday cakes and cupcakes) against one another and a decidedly aging surface.

Her most recent series of drawings confronts the same issues of aging and nostalgia through Eliot’s poem, The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock. And she explores ideas of domesticity with her series of drawings of Homer’s Odyssey from Penelope’s point of view.