UNLV Marjorie Barrick Museum of Art
Las Vegas, Nevada
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MessageGig Depio: Rebuilders
- January 15, 2021 - April 02, 2021
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Gig Depio
Catch-22 (2011)
Oil on canvas
"This thing is me deciding if I should actually kill the art part of my life. At the time my feeling was, I'm going to make my grand exhit. this is what it's going to be. And everybody said the same thing: 'Why are you painting yourself now?'" The four self-portraits are "like me blaming myself for all the, sorry about the term, fuck-ups. And then you're always hesitating and then you're wasting your time and then you end up missing the boat." Why did he include the rebar? "I was working construction and I hated it." Architecture and building materials will reverberate through the rest of "Rebuilders."
(DK Sole, curator)
- Created: 2011