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Windforms
2024
Public Art. Mural. Facade.

Detail Facade celebrating the environment and high desert landscape Windforms is a large mural designed to transform the west-facing facade of Bernalillo County’s headquarters into a vibrant landmark. The piece celebrates Albuquerque’s unique environment, paying homage to the geological and environmental richness of the Sandia Mountains and the high desert landscape through striking colors and […]

Noise Fields (Series)
2023-2024
Photo + Painting Hybrids.

Untitled 04 – Detail Abstracting the urban landscape into fragments of light, surface, and memory This body of work continues Depeña’s exploration of image, memory, and materiality, with a return to his examination of the urban landscape. Rather than presenting the city as a fixed form, the series approaches it as a shifting site of […]

Excavations (Matter Series)
2009-Current
Painting Hybrids.

Excavation 01 -Detail The Excavation paintings are layered, hybrid works that extend the exploration of the Matter series. For over a decade, Depeña has been developing a unique process that fuses painterly tradition with the precision of high-tech, computer aided manufacturing. The “Excavations” series transforms painted surfaces through a method of expressively layering material, incising, […]

Matter (Series)
2016-Current
Praxis, New York, NY

Painting Material Detail Series of layered, hybrid paintings that use chance and intention as basis for compositions.​ “Matter” is an ongoing series of 2-Dimensional work by Ivan Toth Depeña. The work exhibited in “Matter” explores the spatial qualities of painting and drawing using topography, transparency, density of light/color, and layering to achieve work that utilizes […]

Steelyard
2019
Public Art. Mural. Facade.

Detail Inspired by natural phenomena and movement.​ Consisting of a 3 level parking garage facade, the Steelyard mural is a part of the Rail Trail Initiative, intended to reinvigorate the area with public art from various disciplines.  Mural View from the CATS Blue Line This mural’s concept departs from Depena’s painting series, “Matter”. The series explores the […]

Lift
2017
Drawing with Light. Temporary Installation. Art Basel Miami.

Ceiling intervention Light-based art installation inspired by architecture. During the week of Art Basel 2017, RGA Rocket approached Depeña to develop a temporary, immersive and spatial work. The installation took place in the historic warehouse space which is adjacent to the firm’s new office/ location near the Miami River, called the Miami River Armory. Installation […]

remember
2016-2017
Multimedia installation. Immersive.

Etched Mirror detail An immersive journey through memory and perception. Presented at the McColl Center for Arts + Innovation “remember” was a building wide, multimedia installation by artist Ivan Toth Depeña. The exhibition explored the idea that through the process of recollection or remembering, your mind collapses time and space into a perceptual experience that […]