Engaged with the mystical, magical, heroic, and ideal from an early age, Varriano adeptly converses with those images that live in the deeper recesses of consciousness to give us "makings" that can inform, heal, and propel humanity to loftier heights and greater understandings.

Thematically, the exhibition presents three distinct yet related aspects of evolution: the collective evolution of humanity, the evolution of the individual, and the evolution of abstract art. A highly gifted and prolific artist, Varriano has created an important and evocative series of interrelated conceptual categories (Abstract: Metamorphism, Surrealism, Crystalism, and Figurativism) that symbolize progressive developments and flowering of abstract art.

Eruption, which is a sublime example of the artist's Abstract Metamorphism is representative of the development of thematic concepts as they unfold through the creative process.  Raw, mutable, intertwined shapes, dazzling color plays, and strenuously, yearning silhouettes appear to breathe, sweat, and rise as they engender a visual model of the earliest stages of anthropic evolution.  

With his Abstract Surrealism, Varriano creates a dreamlike fantasy that emerges as a new synthesis of form and space. Prodigiously depicted in the artist's painting titled Oracle, Abstract Surrealism draws us into the timeless, unrestrained stirrings of consciousness where images float, move, and stream past the screen of the mind to inform and guide us of their own accord. For Varriano, the ability to engage with the images that bubble forth, unbridled, is as imperative today as it was to our primitive ancestors and remains an aspect of consciousness that we must regularly stimulate, as overconfidence in technologism, empiricism, and materialism threatens the fountainhead of humanities inspiration and meaning. 

In the artist's Abstract Crystalism, we encounter a finely honed, innovative progression of Cubism. This is owed in part to Varriano's background in engineering and architecture, which allows him to view matter from multiple perspectives and dissect and restructure reality to create a fusion between subject, space, and time. His new abstract oil painting, Apollo and Daphne, vividly demonstrates this refined ideal, presented in flattened, faceted, shifting perspectives, bold lines, and brilliant color.

As the evolution of consciousness propels us to greater concretism, so too does Varriano's innovative style of Abstract Figurativism, which uses abstraction to develop figurative forms in an expressive way to heighten the reality of the subject. In Varriano's painting, titled, Gods and Titans, we find interconnecting figures locked in an eternal thrusting and pulling of physical and mental power and might. War or dance, who can say? The gods and titans move with and against one another just as the mind's inner workings have occasion to do,  just as the people of Earth have done and continue to do.  

While Abstract Expressionism is a familiar innovation, Varriano's command of abstract oil painting is remarkably innovative and otherworldly. He gives his audience a masterful outpouring of explosive forms, shapes, and textures counterbalanced by stark discipline, containment, and restraint. Varriano handles paint and the transmission of ideas with exceptional "grace," leading one to conclude the higher worlds he captures are his natural habitat. Rather than shock and awe, Varriano delivers only awe.