Gig Depio
"Breaking Armistice", 2014
Oil on canvas
Marjorie Barrick Museum of Art Collection
Gift of the artist
2016.10.001

Las Vegas-based painter Gig Depio presents the intersections of contemporary and historical forces in the form of intense, often large-scale, figurative compositions. Recipient of the 2016 Nevada Arts Council Fellowship Grant in Painting, he has exhibited across Nevada, with shows at the Nevada Museum of Art in Reno; the Nevada Arts Council OXS Gallery in Carson City; and the Clark County Winchester Cultural Center Gallery, Las Vegas. In his native Philippines, he worked for several years as an apprentice to his father, artist Professor Gig C. De Pio, Sr.

Breaking Armistice brings the past, present, and future of Las Vegas together in a
grouping of allegorical figures. Depio often compresses several ideas into one form, as he does here when he allies a practical jackhammer with the muscles of a professional entertainer.