Ali Dipp

Feb 20

Ali Dipp (b. 1997, El Paso, TX) was born and raised on the binational precipice between the United States and Mexico, in El Paso, TX, where she developed an ongoing interest in the evolution of America’s self-representation. In her works, Dipp employs a manual sewing machine to ‘paint’ on denim with thread, creating variously-scaled collaged textile works that express the myriad ways in which imagery has been enlisted to make and describe America. Informed by her Lebanese and Syrian familial lineages that migrated to Mexico and the United States over the course of generations, Dipp fundamentally understands America to be a moving picture. She posits that a nation’s ideals are wrought from the labor of daily efforts, and recognizes that aspiration is a uniquely American condition. Together, Dipp’s works form an aesthetic argument describing how representations of America reflect an ever changing nation.

Ali Dipp graduated from the Brown-RISD Dual Degree Program in May 2022 with degrees from Brown University (A.B., English) and Rhode Island School of Design (B.F.A., Painting). Dipp is now pursuing an interdisciplinary Ph.D. at Stanford University in Modern Thought and Literature. She is the recipient of the Royal Drawing Academy’s Dumfries Residency in Scotland. Dipp has staged her original plays though the organization she co-founded in 2012, Sunhouse Arts. Sunhouse Arts donates all net profits to humanitarian efforts in the El Paso-Juárez area. During the spring and summer of 2021, Dipp co-hosted and was the creator of “Pass of the North,” an iHeartRadio show broadcast across the Southwest and Mexico. Dipp recently completed her first manuscript, Book of Yet.

Ali Dipp is represented by Franklin Parrasch Gallery.

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