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
Untitled Breaking Armistice Pallete 1 & 2 (2014)
Canvas board, oil paint
Depio describes the palettes as abstract paintings that push his figurative style into more "dynamic" territory. He indicates an area of reddish brushstrokes in the corner of one canvas board. "This dries and I'm thinking, 'This stuff's really beautiful,' and I'm borrowing this aesthetic and putting it into the actual figurative. It's changing the figurative big time. If you look at my new work now [in 2020] you will see this chopped-up stuff. It ended up defining the style. It's this dynamic thing that's happening. It's like when I'm talking to you, I'm not choosing the words and the letters, it's just flowing."
(DK Sole, curator)
- Created: 2014