Adrienne Weiss (b. 1983) is a multidisciplinary artist and educator from California whose work exists in a realm of wild Queer mysticism—an earthly, fluid, and sensual investigation of the ecological realities of somatics and direct experience. The heart of her practice is weaving, and with it she integrates metalwork, ceramics and ritual performance. She considers weaving a sacred practice of tension and release, a rhythmic, embodied flow, where listening to the sounds of looms in a collective studio becomes an ancestral ritual. Processes that utilize heat to make material receptive and pliable – dyeing, welding, forging, and kiln firing protein fibers, steel, and clay – are central to her practice. Manipulating temperature is an act of dynamic relationship wherein she carefully listens and acutely responds to materials. Weiss uses eroticism, esoteric knowledge, history, humor, and symbols to create a world of talismanic objects.

Weiss has exhibited in such institutions and galleries as the Atlanta Contemporary Art Center, Arc Gallery, Woman Made Gallery, and Instit für Alles Mögliche, including a solo exhibition at Applied Contemporary Craft Gallery in Oakland, CA in 2022. In 2024, she performed in an Ecosexual Walking Ritual in Düsseldorf, Germany with Annie Sprinkle and Beth Stephens. She holds B.A.’s in Art History and American Studies from UC Berkeley and is currently an M.F.A. candidate in Fiber and Material Studies at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.