Hi my name is Vasco Varriale, and I’m a visual artist based out of Petaluma and Oakland CA.

I’m heavily influenced by traditional Italian artisanship from a lifelong apprenticeship, assisting my father in a career of Fresco, bronze statue and horse hoof rehabilitation. An ongoing romance with the immense and lonesome beauty of the West contrasting with my upbringing in an Italian-Quebecois immigrant family that could never quite fit into traditional American culture.

The purpose of my art is to reflect the beauty and horror of this world through a playful absurdity that displays perhaps the simplest concept that the human brain knows is true but cannot grasp; two things that contradict can both be true.

People change, people don’t change.

Everybody is the same, no two are alike.

Every extreme seems to have an equally true contradiction. How can this be?