[c]CC Art School presents Gig Depio: Art Practice at Large for The [c] Word on Tuesday, 7 October at 5:30pm UK Time. As a Las Vegas-based Filipino, Gig will discuss his large scale history paintings of America’s colonialist past, its current influences, and the inevitable interweaving of cultures. Join us for this fascinating talk by purchasing a single ticket or contact us to become a member.

In this [c] Word talk, Las Vegas-based Filipino painter Gig Depio presents a timely discussion on the intersection of contemporary and historical forces of American history. Depio’s body of work in the form of large-scale figurative paintings, focuses on American culture, its history, and its philosophy of ‘Manifest Destiny.’ This history resulted in the exploration and settlement of the unfamiliar western United States in the 19th century, and later in its expansion and influence across the globe.

Gig is especially interested in the convergence of American, Philippine, and Spanish histories at the turn of the 20th century, and the inevitable interweaving of many different cultures that has made the ‘melting pot’ of America, once a proud moniker that is now challenged by changing political rhetoric. His individual paintings depict particular political and cultural events in points of time and geographical space in history, but his body of work seen as a whole encapsulates a much bigger picture of how our ideologies and resulting collective human endeavours have directly affected every aspect of our environment in the age of the Anthropocene.

Gig was a recipient of the 2016 Nevada Arts Council Fellowship Grant in Painting, he has exhibited across Nevada, with shows at the Nevada Museum of Art, the University of Nevada Las Vegas, the University of Nevada in Reno, and the Clark County Winchester Cultural Center Gallery, Las Vegas, among others. He has been an exponent for public, non-profit and independent art in Nevada since 2009, and has recently extended his advocacy internationally, including exhibitions with the National Commission for Culture and Arts (NCCA), Manila, Philippines in 2018, and in the 58th Venice Biennale, Giudecca Art District (GAD), Venice, Italy in 2019.