Ali Della Bitta

“Driven by material investigation and research, my work explores the complex relationship between human experience and the natural environment. Inspired by shifting landscapes and increasing human impact on natural spaces, my sculptural practice examines the intersection of ecosystems and human-made forms, and the ways they coexist in harmony or duress. I combine discarded and manufactured materials—both ephemeral and enduring—to create sculptural and installation-based works that reflect adaptation, manipulation, decline, and forced change, while also suggesting resilience, ingenuity, desire, and empathy.

By repurposing materials, I question systems of value, consumption, and sustainability, while emphasizing the fragile balance between humanity and the environment. My work invites viewers to reflect on their relationship to landscape and consider the impact of human activity on natural systems.

I explore the collision and the coexistence of our natural environment and the man made and where they meet in harmony or duress. By combining both ephemeral and lasting materials I recreate a dialogue of adaptation, forced change, manipulation, process, and entropy. The interactions between the two environments can be both personal and societal. These points of contact between the natural and the fabricated speak of cruelty, angst, disregard, deterioration, futility, degradation, and disappointment. At the same time they exude desire, growth, attraction, adaptation, empathy, and ingenuity. Through my material combinations I communicate the awkwardness and sometimes absurdity of where industry and daily life meet nature.”

-Ali Della Bitta

Originally from Connecticut, she studied sculpture and ceramics at the University of North Carolina, Greensboro and received her BFA in 2003. She then went on to receive her Masters in Fine Arts from Purchase College in 2007. Della Bitta currently resides in the Adirondack Region of Upstate New York where she is an Associate Professor of Ceramics and maintains a private studio. She has had a number of solo exhibitions, public art projects, collaborative projects, and group exhibitions. Her work has been exhibited both nationally and internationally.

Her website:https://www.alidellabitta.com/