Depths of Rhodes by Nataliia Ivaniv
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Medium: acrylic on canvas
Dimensions: 60 x 80 cm
Year: 2023
Price: $950.00 USD
Status: available
"Depth of Rhodes" is an abstract meditation on the submerged world of the Mediterranean — where light fractures through layers of water, and memory dissolves into color. Built up through dense, textured surfaces and a restrained palette of deep indigo, ultramarine, and luminous cerulean, the painting evokes the physical sensation of sinking beneath the surface: pressure, silence, and the slow reveal of hidden depths. The heavily layered composition mimics the stratified nature of sea and stone — each brushstroke and palette-knife mark becoming a geological record of movement and time. Dark currents of navy and violet pulse beneath brighter, almost phosphorescent blues, suggesting the tension between what is visible and what remains concealed. The tactile surface invites close inspection: ridges catch light like wave-ripples, while recessed areas pull the eye into shadowed underwater crevices. Signed on the back. Ready to hang. Certificate of authenticity included.
Why collect this work?
Depths of Rhodes organizes an all-over blue field through fractured directional marks, making orientation uncertain while preventing the surface from settling into a single seascape.
- Ivaniv describes the canvas as a physical interface between digital spatiality and tactile material. The blocklike fragments here support that comparison, although their aquatic association depends partly on the title.
- In the photograph, short arcs, angled contours, and translucent-looking patches cross without a horizon. Scattered dark marks interrupt the brighter blue field, producing local eddies rather than one dominant focal point.
- Catalogued as acrylic on canvas from 2023, the medium allows saturated colour, sharp interruptions, and successive coverage. The photograph indicates varied mark density, but cannot establish the painting’s actual relief or precise hues.
- Placed beside representational marine images, this painting could clarify how little visual information is needed for a place-name to steer abstraction toward water, depth, and submerged terrain.
About the Artist
Nataliia Ivaniv
Nataliia Ivaniv is an artist on Mondoir Studio. Artistic discipline: painting. Based in Ivano-Frankivsk, UA.
Nationality: Ukrainian
I’m interested in color as a psychological space rather than decoration.
