Warren Seelig fell in love with weaving as a student at the Philadelphia College of Textiles and Science in the early 1970s. Over the ensuing decades, he has created a distinguished body of work built on an intuitive, unconventional approach to materials that both extends and redefines the traditional field of textiles, from enormous site-specific installations to small-scale sculptural explorations of pattern, light, and structure. "For me, the textile is a phenomenon that is 'spirited' and evokes images of connection and connectedness, of crystalline fields, cellular atmospheres, and granular surface in three dimensions," he has said. The repetitive modality of weaving underlies his iterative process and work with diverse materials. His recent painted wood constructions evoke plant forms and molecular structures, branching patterns of sophisticated color that tumble and connect, populating and repopulating in seemingly endless variations.

Seelig was born in Abington, Pennsylvania. He received his BA from Kutztown State College, Kutztown, PA; BS from Philadelphia College of Textiles and Science, Philadelphia, PA; and MFA from Cranbrook Academy of Art, Bloomfield Hills, MI. With multi-generational family ties to fiber milling and the textile industry, he was exposed to textiles and the machines that manufacture them at a young age. His work has been included in over thirty major museum exhibitions in the United States, Europe, Japan, and Korea and in solo and group shows worldwide. It is in private, corporate, and museum collections throughout the United States and was recently acquired by the Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg, Russia. He has received fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Pennsylvania Council of the Arts, and United States Artists. He is a distinguished visiting professor at the University of the Arts in Philadelphia, a regular visiting critic in textiles at the Rhode Island School of Design, and a mentor in the Maine College of Art and Design graduate program. He has lectured extensively on textiles and material studies, including at the Gerrit Rietveld Academy in Amsterdam, the Royal College of Art in London, and the National University of the Arts in Seoul. He lives and works in Rockland, ME.