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- [Home](https://depenastudio.com/) - Depeña Studio is the interdisciplinary art studio of Ivan Toth Depeña. Depeña’s artistic production is informed by his experience in art, architecture, technology, and design, and encompasses a range of media. He works frequently in the public art realm while maintaining a rigorous self directed studio practice. With over 20 years of experience in fine art, architecture and design, Depeña's work strives to defy categorization by intertwining these creative disciplines with science and technology. His work consists of various media ranging from hand drawing to high-tech, interactive light installations, often incorporating traditional techniques with technological advancements.
- [About](https://depenastudio.com/about/) - Overview Depeña Studio is the interdisciplinary art studio of Ivan Toth Depeña. Depeña’s artistic production is informed by his experience in art, architecture, technology, and design, and encompasses a range of media. He works frequently in the public art realm while maintaining a rigorous self directed studio practice. Bio Ivan Toth Depeña is a hispanic-american artist
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- [Press](https://depenastudio.com/press/) - Press Highlights ‘A visual landmark’: Work begins on Rail Trail Bridge by Alison Kuznitz Psychedelic Scavenger Hunt: Using Virtual Reality To Create Invisible Public Art by Wilson Sayre Ivan toth depena: reflection installation by Jenny Filippetti Whimsical Forest Sprouts in Denver “A vibrant installation by artist Ivan Toth Depeña is dazzling commuters…” An Artist’s Augmented
- [Connect](https://depenastudio.com/connect/) - Get in Touch! Depeña Studio would love to hear from you. General Contact Information Location: Charlotte, NC Email: contact *at* depenastudio.comPhone: (980) 288-6420 Join our Newsletter Sign up for our newsletter to receive the latest studio updates. Work for Us For project based/temporary and possible full time positions, please email your CV and portfolio to
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- [USE - Text Block - 50 padding, left justified](https://depenastudio.com/?elementor_library=use-text-block-50-padding-left-justified) - “Photon/s” boasts a 4-story facade element made of finely perforated metal sheets that mimic the 3 dimensional sculptures, backlit with LEDs. In the evening, this facet of the installation comes alive, displaying a tapestry of light and shadow on the surrounding plaza. Depeña designed this interplay to invite emotional contemplation on the duality of light,
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- [Back Band - Four highlights](https://depenastudio.com/?elementor_library=back-band-four-highlights) - Aurum: A sculptural fusion of nature, architecture, and history at Vantage South End. Inspired by History + Nature Evokes the South End’s gold mining history through faceted designs inspired by gold nuggets. Integration with Site Six canopies complement the cantilevered and angular lines of the site’s architecture. Ethereal Material Material has a metallic quality when
- [Blank Band with 3 text headings](https://depenastudio.com/?elementor_library=blank-band-3-headings) - This project honors Martin Luther King’s “I Have a Dream” speech through Water Feature + reflective Pool The reflective pool creates a new form of wishing well Interactivity When visitors walk by, the word “DREAM” is sent into the ether via the sculpture’s arcs, capturing the idealism and hope in King’s speech Site Location Atlanta
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## Projects

- [<div class='ds-title'>A Maverick’s Path</div> <div class='ds-grey ds-year'>2025 </div><div class='ds-grey ds-head'>Public Art. Suspended Sculpture.</div>](https://depenastudio.com/project/a-mavericks-path-2025-public-art-suspended-sculpture/) - View Gallery Stairwell view A suspended path of motion, risk, and momentum. Created for a private client in Bentonville, Arkansas, A Maverick’s Path is a 65-foot suspended sculpture that moves through a central stairwell as a dynamic blue line. The work contrasts fluid motion with straight vertical elements, reflecting the tension between structure and disruption,
- [<div class='ds-title'>Photon/s</div> <div class='ds-grey ds-year'>2023 </div><div class='ds-grey ds-head'>Public Art. Sculpture. Facade.</div>](https://depenastudio.com/project/photons-2023-public-art-sculpture-video-facade/) - View Gallery Looking upward Inspired by the essence of light and energy. Located in downtown Charlotte, this public art sculpture by Ivan Toth Depeña pays tribute to the very essence of light and energy: the photon. Situated in the urban plaza of the new Duke Energy Tower, the monumental, permanent installation, “Photon/s”, is set to
- [<div class='ds-title'>S/Wing </div> <div class='ds-grey ds-year'>2026 </div><div class='ds-grey ds-head'>Public Art. Sculpture.</div>](https://depenastudio.com/project/swing-dublin-sculpture/) - View Gallery Looking upward A sculptural gesture shaped by the mechanics of flight and motion Located on a knoll in Muirfield Village Golf Club, S/WING is a permanent public sculpture with a monumental presence, drawing inspiration from the graceful motion of a bird in flight and the body mechanics of Jack Nicklaus’s iconic golf swing.
- [<div class='ds-title'>Breaking Barriers </div> <div class='ds-grey ds-year'>2023 </div><div class='ds-grey ds-head'>Public Art. Sculpture.</div>](https://depenastudio.com/project/breaking-barriers/) - View Gallery View through Sculpture Monument in memoriam of Jack Trice, reflecting on strength and absence. “Breaking Barriers” is a monumental sculpture commemorating Jack Trice, Iowa State University’s first African-American athlete. Trice died from injuries he received during his first game with the ISU Cyclones in October of 1923. Commissioned by ISU, the sculpture contemplates
- [<div class='ds-title'>Noise Fields (Series)</div> <div class='ds-grey ds-year'>2023-2024 </div><div class='ds-grey ds-head'>Photo + Painting Hybrids.</div>](https://depenastudio.com/project/noise-fields-series-2023-2024-photo-painting-hybrids/) - View Gallery 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
- [<div class='ds-title'>Excavations (Matter Series)</div> <div class='ds-grey ds-year'>2009-Current </div><div class='ds-grey ds-head'>Painting Hybrids.</div>](https://depenastudio.com/project/excavation-series-2019-current/) - View Gallery 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
- [<div class='ds-title'>The Fallen Sky Chronicles Series</div> <div class='ds-grey ds-year'>2008-2013</div><div class='ds-grey ds-head'>Painting Hybrids.</div>](https://depenastudio.com/project/the-fallen-sky-chroniclesseries-2008-2013/) - View Gallery “Suddenly Home Becomes Everything You Have Not Burned Down” detail, image courtesy of the Honeywell Collection Experiments in fictional theory. These pieces are part of a series that responds to a fictional situation that when simply paraphrased refers to “the earth after it comes apart and matter/objects reassemble themselves to form new but
- [<div class='ds-title'>Matter (Series)</div> <div class='ds-grey ds-year'>2016-Current </div><div class='ds-grey ds-head'>Praxis, New York, NY</div>](https://depenastudio.com/project/matter-series-2016-praxis-new-york-ny/) - View GalleryPainting 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
- [<div class='ds-title'>Windforms</div> <div class='ds-grey ds-year'>2024</div><div class='ds-grey ds-head'>Public Art. Mural. Facade.</div>](https://depenastudio.com/project/windforms-2024public-art-mural-facade/) - View GalleryDetail 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 #
- [<div class='ds-title'>Aurum</div> <div class='ds-grey ds-year'>2022 </div><div class='ds-grey ds-head'>Public Art. Sculpture. Architectural intervention.</div>](https://depenastudio.com/project/aurum/) - View Gallery Night view Sheltering and immersive play of light and shadow inspired by the by the geometric facets of the gold nuggets discovered in the area. Aurum is a permanent outdoor sculpture serving as the centerpiece of Vantage South End. Evoking themes of nature and shelter, the shade-giving sculpture includes six, 16-foot-wide canopies on
- [<div class='ds-title'>Flow</div> <div class='ds-grey ds-year'>2024 </div><div class='ds-grey ds-head'>Light Installation</div>](https://depenastudio.com/project/flow/) - View Gallery Installation View Light installation reflects the dynamic energy of the expanding neighborhood, blending art, technology, and urban movement. This installation features several linear LED light fixtures suspended on cantilevered metal armatures. Inspired by the location, movement of cars and pedestrians, the dynamic lighting reflects the vibrant energy and newly present motion of Charlotte’s
- [<div class='ds-title'>Arc </div> <div class='ds-grey ds-year'>2016 </div><div class='ds-grey ds-head'>Public Art. Sculpture. Lighting controlled by wind.</div>](https://depenastudio.com/project/arc-2016-public-art-sculpture-lighting-controlled-by-wind/) - View Gallery Overall View Shaped by storm data, Arc visually conveys real-time wind conditions with color and movement. Commissioned by Miami-Dade Art in Public Places and the City of Aventura, ‘Arc’ reimagines the destructive force of Hurricane Wilma as a source of renewal and inspiration. The project originated from a desire to transform the aftermath
- [<div class='ds-title'>Animorph</div> <div class='ds-grey ds-year'>2024 </div><div class='ds-grey ds-head'>Public Art. Sculpture. Video Wall.</div>](https://depenastudio.com/project/animorph-2024-public-art-sculpture-video-wall/) - View Gallery installation View Abstract art celebrates animal welfare. Animorph, located the Santa Clara County Animal Services Center, is a public art installation featuring five large metal sculptures and a dynamic video display at the entrance. Abstracted, colorful portraits of animals, created using digital pixelation to avoid direct representation, showcases the shelter’s focus on animal
- [<div class='ds-title'>Steelyard</div> <div class='ds-grey ds-year'>2019</div><div class='ds-grey ds-head'>Public Art. Mural. Facade.</div>](https://depenastudio.com/project/steelyard-garage/) - View GalleryDetail 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. This mural’s concept departs from Depena’s painting series, “Matter”. The series explores the spatial qualities of painting and drawing
- [<div class='ds-title'>Air/Traffic/Control </div> <div class='ds-grey ds-year'>2018 </div><div class='ds-grey ds-head'>Public Art. Column. Glass. Sound. Dynamic.</div>](https://depenastudio.com/project/air-traffic-control/) - View Gallery Glass Detail Inspired by traveler’s journey, this project includes wayfinding, dynamic lighting activity tied to airplane traffic at the airport, and custom audio. “Air/Traffic/Control” is an installation in the 6 elevator lobbies at the Nashville International Airport’s new Ground Transportation Center and Terminal Parking Garage. The project was inspired by the complexity and
- [<div class='ds-title'>Dreamcaster</div> <div class='ds-grey ds-year'>2023</div><div class='ds-grey ds-head'>Sculpture. Interactive. Water Feature. In  honor of MLK Jr. </div>](https://depenastudio.com/project/dreamcaster-2023interactive-water-feature-in-honor-of-mlk-jr/) - View Gallery Fountain Detail In honor of Martin Luther King Jr’s ” I Have a Dream” speech, visitors have their “DREAM” sent into the ether via the sculpture’s abstracted hilltop.​ Inspired by the words of the late Martin Luther King Jr.’s ‘I Have a Dream’ speech, Depeña created a meditative, sculptural experience by utilizing the
- [<div class='ds-title'>Common Thread</div> <div class='ds-grey ds-year'>2023</div><div class='ds-grey ds-head'>Suspended Sculpture. </div>](https://depenastudio.com/project/common-thread-2023hanging-sculpture/) - View Gallery View Looking Up Coursing over 100′ through the building’s large lobby, Common Thread pays homage to the area’s history as a textile hub “Common Thread” is an installation conceived by Ivan Toth Depeña for the headquarters of the Gaston Community Foundation in Gastonia, North Carolina. The artwork transforms the lobby and courtyard into
- [<div class='ds-title'>Color Field</div> <div class='ds-grey ds-year'>2014 </div><div class='ds-grey ds-head'>Public Art. Sculpture. Glass.</div>](https://depenastudio.com/project/color-field/) - View Gallery Installation Detail Colorful castings of sunlight through glass transforms commuter hub into an abstracted sundial. Color Field is a permanent public art installation located at the Federal Center Station in Lakewood, Colorado, that transforms the commuter space into a dynamic visual experience. Commissioned by Denver’s Regional Transportation District, the project enhances the West
- [<div class='ds-title'>Towards a Fading Signal</div> <div class='ds-grey ds-year'>2014 </div><div class='ds-grey ds-head'>Installation. Dynamic.</div>](https://depenastudio.com/project/towards-a-fading-signal-2014-installation-dynamic/) - View Gallery Installation detail showing dots in motion Honors our connection to the sea, while showcasing Depeña’s innovative blend of technology and natural wonder. Using Flip-dot technology, once a staple in public transportation displays, Depeña constructs a dynamic installation celebrating humanity’s deep connection with the ocean. The work displays video footage with segments of literature
- [<div class='ds-title'>Melt</div> <div class='ds-grey ds-year'>2016 </div><div class='ds-grey ds-head'>Public Art. Installation. Commissioned by Spotify.</div>](https://depenastudio.com/project/melt/) - View Gallery Temporary ice installation at Spotify’s ‘Clarify’ series depicted environmental fragility. Depeña was invited to create a temporary installation as part Spotify’s “Clarify” series featuring videos, exhibitions and conversations that explore the connection between music, art, and politics. The project featured a scaled down neighborhood made of ice on the 7th floor of the parking
- [<div class='ds-title'>Lapse</div> <div class='ds-grey ds-year'>2016 </div><div class='ds-grey ds-head'>Public Art. Virtual Scavenger Hunt. Augmented Reality. Sculpture. Painting. Audio.</div>](https://depenastudio.com/project/lapse/) - View Gallery View of the Sounds via Lapse app As a new chapter in Depeña’s ongoing series The Fallen Sky Chronicles, Lapse consists of six interwoven components: The Visions & The Collective, a series of publically accessible murals; The Sounds, a GPS-based audio soundscape discoverable on Miami’s downtown MetroMover; The Writing, a virtual walking prose
- [<div class='ds-title'>Inside/Out </div> <div class='ds-grey ds-year'>2017 </div><div class='ds-grey ds-head'>Public Art. Sculpture. Responsive Lighting </div>](https://depenastudio.com/project/inside-out-2017-public-art-sculpture-responsive-lighting/) - View Gallery View in Sunset mode Architecture as a living organism, coming alive in three modes – Sunset, Night, and Event (noise in arena activates lighting). This project is inspired by the idea that architecture can be a living, breathing organism that can come alive by the activity of the building’s end users. The energy created in
- [<div class='ds-title'>remember</div> <div class='ds-grey ds-year'>2016-2017 </div><div class='ds-grey ds-head'>Multimedia installation. Immersive.</div>](https://depenastudio.com/project/remember-2016-2017-multimedia-installation-immersive/) - View Gallery 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
- [<div class='ds-title'>Cloud Canopy</div> <div class='ds-grey ds-year'>2022 </div><div class='ds-grey ds-head'>Public Art. Sculpture. Metal.</div>](https://depenastudio.com/project/cloud-canopy-2022-public-art-sculpture-metal/) - View Gallery Canopy Detail at Wilmore Park Ambient urban soundscape inspires functional, artistic shade structures in Wilmore Park. Commissioned to enhance Wilmore Park and the adjacent Square, these sculptural installations were designed to provide shade and protection. The vertical louvers at Square and horizontal louvers at Wilmore park are crafted to reflect the ambient sounds
- [<div class='ds-title'>Lift</div> <div class='ds-grey ds-year'>2017</div><div class='ds-grey ds-head'>Drawing with Light. Temporary Installation. Art Basel Miami.</div>](https://depenastudio.com/project/lift-2017temporary-installation-art-basel-miami/) - View Gallery 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
- [<div class='ds-title'>We'll Never Click</div> <div class='ds-grey ds-year'>2018 </div><div class='ds-grey ds-head'>Augmented Reality. Print. </div>](https://depenastudio.com/project/well-never-click-2018-augmented-reality-print/) - View Gallery 2018, City Unseen– Snap! Orlando– Orlando, FL
- [<div class='ds-title'>Light Cloud</div> <div class='ds-grey ds-year'>2018</div><div class='ds-grey ds-head'>Interactive Mobile. Light. Sound.</div>](https://depenastudio.com/project/light-cloud/) - View Gallery Light Detail Transforms learning into interactive, suspended art. Light Cloud is an interactive, suspended installation that captivates and educates visitors at Tampa’s Glazer Children’s Museum. This project merges the realms of art and interactive learning by inviting participants to manipulate light and sound through touch. Merges art and learning through light and sound
- [<div class='ds-title'>Inverted Artifact</div> <div class='ds-grey ds-year'>2020</div><div class='ds-grey ds-head'>Outdoor Sculpture. Charlotte, NC.</div>](https://depenastudio.com/project/inverted-artifact-2020outdoor-sculpture-charlotte-nc/) - View Gallery Detail View Made of old Pepsi plant materials, this sculpture reflects the area’s history and transformation. This work responds to the history of the site as the first Pepsi bottling plant. The plant was demolished to make way for new development. The work was conceived as a large space junk artifact that has been
- [<div class='ds-title'>Knight Sounds: Sinfonica </div> <div class='ds-grey ds-year'>2018 </div><div class='ds-grey ds-head'>Interactive. Painting.</div>](https://depenastudio.com/project/knight-sounds-sinfonica-2018-interactive-painting/) - View Gallery Display behind Symphony Live interactive light installation, abstracting the Charlotte Symphony’s Conductor Laureate Christopher Warren-Green’s movement and the musicians’ performance into art.​​ Commissioned by Charlotte Symphony as part of their Knight Sounds program, the studio created an on-stage responsive, interactive light installation inspired by the Symphony’s journey through the works of popular Spanish
- [<div class='ds-title'>The Fallen Sky Chronicles Series: Lapse: The Moment</div> <div class='ds-grey ds-year'>2016 </div><div class='ds-grey ds-head'>Locust Projects, Miami, FL</div>](https://depenastudio.com/project/the-moment-lapse-the-fallen-sky-chronicles-series-2016-locust-projects-miami-fl/) - View GalleryLight Animation Multimedia installation explores transcendent disruptions in a suburban house setting. The Moment, is a site-specific installation at Locust Projects’ exhibition space in the Miami Design District. The Moment consists of a multi-media installation featuring a structure based on the archetype of a suburban house, which has been broken in half to reveal
- [<div class='ds-title'>Solar Scale</div> <div class='ds-grey ds-year'>2020 </div><div class='ds-grey ds-head'>Public Art. Sculpture. Glass.</div>](https://depenastudio.com/project/to-scale-2017-public-art-sculpture-glass/) - View Gallery Glass Detail Series of sculptures translates the scale of the solar system, offering an interactive, dynamic visitor experience. The purpose of this project is to translate the solar system’s scale into sculptural form, creating an experience that gets infused with life as it gets used by it’s visitors. Taking inspiration from minimalism, Depeña creates
- [<div class='ds-title'>Reflect</div> <div class='ds-grey ds-year'>2012 </div><div class='ds-grey ds-head'>Public Art. Installation. Lobby. Column. Interactive.</div>](https://depenastudio.com/project/reflect-2012-public-art-installation-lobby-column-interactive/) - View Gallery View with Interaction Light installation energizes a major Miami commuter hub, blending interactivity, community reflection, and memory. As a main stop in Miami’s MetroRail system, the space serves as a hub for commuters; incorporating the notion of daily circulation into his piece, Depeña uses sensors and light to focus on the communal nature
- [<div class='ds-title'>Surface </div> <div class='ds-grey ds-year'>2017</div><div class='ds-grey ds-head'>Public Art. Glass. Light. Architectural Intervention.</div>](https://depenastudio.com/project/surface-2017public-art-glass-light-architectural-intervention/) - View Gallery Upwards View Through Glass Topographic data from Lake Norman used to recreate the emotional experience of looking up through the surface of water. “Surface” redefines the commuter experience at the Charlotte Area Transit System’s (CATS) Cornelius Park and Ride. Celebrated by Mayor Chuck Travis as the “coolest park and ride in CATS,” this
- [<div class='ds-title'>I-277 Pedestrian Bridge </div> <div class='ds-grey ds-year'>Coming 2027 </div><div class='ds-grey ds-head'>Pedestrian bridge connecting Charlotte's Railtrail to Uptown.</div>](https://depenastudio.com/project/277-pedestrian-bridge-coming-2027-pedestrian-bridge-connecting-charlottes-railtrail-to-uptown/) - View GalleryRendering View West Designed by Depeña Studio. Coming 2027. Designed as a continuation of Charlotte’s Rail Trail initiative – a linear pedestrian conduit that runs parallel to the Blue Line Light Rail. This pedestrian and cyclist bridge forms a much needed connection between Charlotte’s South End neighborhood with uptown over the busy, I-277 highway.
- [<div class='ds-title'>Hereafter</div> <div class='ds-grey ds-year'>2005 </div><div class='ds-grey ds-head'>Photography.</div>](https://depenastudio.com/project/hereafter-2005-photography/) - View Gallery Surveillance-like, aerial documentation of obscure relationships between various urban and suburban subjects/objects. The tenous division between the natural and the man made is explored. The patterns and compositions created by these somewhat natural phenomena, the curiously placed human interventions and architecture are some of the things that I was interested in capturing during
- [<div class='ds-title'>The Walkers</div> <div class='ds-grey ds-year'>2013</div><div class='ds-grey ds-head'>Interactive Mural. Reed Krakoff, New York, NY.. </div>](https://depenastudio.com/project/the-walkers-2013interactive-mural-reed-krakoff-new-york-ny/) - View Gallery Storefront Detail A temporary public art collaboration with fashion designer Reed Krakoff. This storefront installation was located at Krakoff’s flagship store on Madison Avenue, NYC. The main component is the responsive element that uses the viewers movement to activate the lighting. https://vimeo.com/videos/57171588 Project Video Full Project Description A temporary public art collaboration with
- [<div class='ds-title'>Incidental Antinomies Series </div> <div class='ds-grey ds-year'>2004 </div><div class='ds-grey ds-head'>Video. Photo.</div>](https://depenastudio.com/project/incidental-antinomies-series-2004-video-photography/) - View Gallery Untitled: Portrait Captures the choreography of lights and flora in urban nightscapes. After photographing nocturnal subject matter for some time, Depeña became consumed with the relationship between artificial lights and flora. Watching the movement and placements, the couple started to become more and more anthropomorphic, dancing and courting. A seemingly prearranged relationship forced
- [<div class='ds-title'>The Fallen Sky Chronicles Series: Horizon</div> <div class='ds-grey ds-year'>2008 </div><div class='ds-grey ds-head'>Installation. Art and Culture Center of Hollywood.</div>](https://depenastudio.com/project/horizon-fallen-sky-chronicles-series-2008-installation-art-and-culture-center-of-hollywood/) - View Gallery Detail An installation inviting viewers into a reflective, reimagined space. This project reimagines space with an innovative light installation, blending architectural precision with the artistic vision to evoke a dystopian reflection through gathered materials. By suspending a wooden light box above a mirrored floor, he invites an exploration of altered perceptions, where light
- [<div class='ds-title'>Noise</div> <div class='ds-grey ds-year'>2007 </div><div class='ds-grey ds-head'>Solo Exhibition. Ingalls & Associates. Miami, FL.</div>](https://depenastudio.com/project/noise-2007-solo-exhibition-ingalls-associates-miami-fl/) - View Gallery Detail Merging art and technology to craft abstract landscapes from urban and natural influences. In this work Depeña fuses creative disciplines through an expressive process of combining technology and art into formal objects. Taking cues from a constant rumination of the nocturnal urban environment such as artificial light, large-scale advertising, obscure illumination, natural
- [<div class='ds-title'>Dystopian Diaries Series: Like Never Seems</div> <div class='ds-grey ds-year'>2002 </div><div class='ds-grey ds-head'>Video. Locust Projects.</div>](https://depenastudio.com/project/dystopian-diaries-series-like-never-seems-2002-video-locust-projects/) - View Gallery Video Stills Composition Focusing on the built environment’s relationships and the interplay of time and space. Part of the “Dystopian Diaries” series of photographs, this video examines the subtle and often overlooked formal relationships that weave through our surrounding. The intricate choreography of time and space is another important element in this video.
- [<div class='ds-title'>Prisoners Cinema (Series)</div> <div class='ds-grey ds-year'>2018 - Present</div><div class='ds-grey ds-head'>Drawing Hybrids.</div>](https://depenastudio.com/project/prisoners-cinema-series-2018-presentdrawing-hybrids/) - View Gallery

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