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
Sabbatical in Chicken Suit Central (2014)
Oil on Canvas
Like many of the paintings that appeared in "A Brief History," "Sabbatical in Chicken Suit Central" reflects Depio’s interest in the art world around him. The Las Vegas Weekly art critic Kristen Peterson peers through the window of Fremont Street’s Emergency Arts building while a Contemporary Art Center mug stands on a sill to the left. The title came from a discussion on the Facebook page of Dave Hickey, the art world raconteur who was based in Las Vegas for nearly twenty years. Depio compares the chicken suit to the exaggerated stance of the UFC wrestler in Armistice. “Let’s make it a verb,” he says. “You’re just chicken suiting it, you’re doing the pretend thing, you’re an actor.”
(DK Sole, curator)
- Created: 2014