d’ARP is Dina (Alcalay) Ruth Pearlman-Ifil
About Dina Pearlman-Ifil
Dina is the only child of Alan and Buena Pearlman and grew up with ARP Synthesizers as a backdrop for her childhood, traveling extensively and being exposed to innovative and cutting edge technology. In her early years she spent time playing in rock and roll bands, as well as dance and theater. For the past thirty years she has worked as a versatile visual arts and design professional, creative director, and educator. She has also worked extensively in photography, graphic and web design for several decades, and has a broad understanding of visual communications media.
In the last few years before his illness, Alan Pearlman started to re-examine the brave new world of synthesizers that exists today, many decades after his iconic and groundbreaking 12 years as the inventor and founder of ARP Synthesizers. During this time, he brought his daughter into the conversation. After his death in January 2019, Dina realized that the need of keeping his legacy and passion alive, and started the Alan R. Pearlman Foundation and ARP Archives.
Atelier d’ARP
Recently, Dina’s work has reflected her life in relationship to running the Alan R Pearlman Foundation.
Deriving from synthesizers, images of places, wall-graffiti and iconography from mid-Century modern, the era she was born into, Dina has embarked on a journey of functional art: wearable and home decor.
Coming late fall in time for Christmas, Atelier d’ARP will launch an online store where one can choose from a variety of functional art: from pure silk scarves, to jackets as well as more affordable bandanas, socks and pocket–squares.
Other Art
Dina’s artwork reflects directly upon the inner world of her personal experiences; travels in Europe and Latin America, music, dance and her love of texture, technology, graffiti and the influence of time, the patinas of surfaces worn by time.
Working in several mediums: photography, printmaking, mixed media and encaustic paint, her studio work has taken on a more formalistic approach, including suggestions of people, figures dancing, playing instruments or embracing. The ambiguity of shapes reflecting the body in motion, ghosts of impressions, layers that suggest centuries of impressions on city walls.