John Varriano New York Rapture
On View
July 3 - September 30, 2025
New York
John Varriano New York Rapture
On View
September 18 - December 20, 2025
New York
John Varriano, The Counselor, 2009
Oil on canvas, 54" x 40" (137.16 cm x 101.6 cm)
John Varriano New York Rapture
On View
September 18 - December 20, 2025
New York
John Varriano, The Counselor, 2009
Oil on canvas, 54" x 40" (137.16 cm x 101.6 cm)
John Varriano New York Rapture
On View
July 3 - September 30, 2025
New York
Bellaron Gallery is pleased to present an exhibition of John Varriano, American Artist's New York Rapture at its 219 East 69th Street gallery.
Running from July 3rd to September 30th, 2025 the exhibition, New York Rapture, spotlights more than forty paintings by the artist from his sweeping body of work centered on New York City. The presentation will be accompanied by a new catalogue from Bellaron Publishing.
One of the contemporary art world's few artists who have mastered both abstract and figurative oil painting, John Varriano's visual expose takes us on an introspective journey into the psychological depths of city people as he immortalizes the mood, personality and drama of the city's wealthy elite, urban dwellers, workers and inner city inhabitants.
From the alleys and alcoves, to the side streets, main streets and avenues Varriano’s acute sensitivity of his subject matter coupled with his bold use of paint creates an exquisite “telling” of the glitz and grit that makes New York one of the most fascinating cities in the world.
Varriano’s oil paintings become a highly personal and intimate affair with the city’s populace; opening the windows to New York apartments with their sumptuous and sometimes squalid conditions, ascending and descending the stairs with subway commuters on a typical workday, confronting the dire surroundings and psychological devastation of the city’s homeless, and engaging with the beautiful people in the restaurants and clubs that propagate a habitat for deal making.
Varriano’s rapture with the city lies in the proliferation and immediacy of its contrasts. For every luxury, there is poverty. To every achievement, there is failure. For every joy, despair. For every fulfilled desire, disappointment and want. For every virtue, vice. This plethora of human experience transforms the city into a gravitational field, irresistibly pulling millions towards its center.
An artist adept with diverse mediums, Varriano chose oil paint for this body of work owing to its receptive qualities. The tactility of the paint lends to the expressive depiction of textures such as flesh and fabric, concrete and wood, plastic and steel, glass and paper; all prominent components of city life. The scale of his pieces range from demure to grand, with copious compositions as small as 16 x 20 inches and meticulously orchestrated fugues measuring 8 feet in height.
Bellaron Gallery is pleased to present an exhibition of John Varriano, American Artist's New York Rapture at its 219 East 69th Street gallery.
Running from July 3rd to September 30th, 2025 the exhibition, New York Rapture, spotlights more than forty paintings by the artist from his sweeping body of work centered on New York City. The presentation will be accompanied by a new catalogue from Bellaron Publishing.
One of the contemporary art world's few artists who have mastered both abstract and figurative oil painting, John Varriano's visual expose takes us on an introspective journey into the psychological depths of city people as he immortalizes the mood, personality and drama of the city's wealthy elite, urban dwellers, workers and inner city inhabitants.
From the alleys and alcoves, to the side streets, main streets and avenues Varriano’s acute sensitivity of his subject matter coupled with his bold use of paint creates an exquisite “telling” of the glitz and grit that makes New York one of the most fascinating cities in the world.
Varriano’s oil paintings become a highly personal and intimate affair with the city’s populace; opening the windows to New York apartments with their sumptuous and sometimes squalid conditions, ascending and descending the stairs with subway commuters on a typical workday, confronting the dire surroundings and psychological devastation of the city’s homeless, and engaging with the beautiful people in the restaurants and clubs that propagate a habitat for deal making.
Varriano’s rapture with the city lies in the proliferation and immediacy of its contrasts. For every luxury, there is poverty. To every achievement, there is failure. For every joy, despair. For every fulfilled desire, disappointment and want. For every virtue, vice. This plethora of human experience transforms the city into a gravitational field, irresistibly pulling millions towards its center.
An artist adept with diverse mediums, Varriano chose oil paint for this body of work owing to its receptive qualities. The tactility of the paint lends to the expressive depiction of textures such as flesh and fabric, concrete and wood, plastic and steel, glass and paper; all prominent components of city life. The scale of his pieces range from demure to grand, with copious compositions as small as 16 x 20 inches and meticulously orchestrated fugues measuring 8 feet in height.
John Varriano
New York Rapture
On View
July 3 - September 30, 2025
New York
John Varriano, The Counselor, 2009
Oil on canvas, 54" x 40" (137.16 cm x 101.6 cm)
Featured Works
Bellaron Gallery is pleased to present an exhibition of John Varriano, American Artist's New York Rapture at its 219 East 69th Street gallery.
Running from July 3rd to September 30th, 2025 the exhibition, New York Rapture, spotlights more than forty paintings by the artist from his sweeping body of work centered on New York City. The presentation will be accompanied by a new catalogue from Bellaron Publishing.
One of the contemporary art world's few artists who have mastered both abstract and figurative oil painting, John Varriano's visual expose takes us on an introspective journey into the psychological depths of city people as he immortalizes the mood, personality and drama of the city's wealthy elite, urban dwellers, workers and inner city inhabitants.
From the alleys and alcoves, to the side streets, main streets and avenues Varriano’s acute sensitivity of his subject matter coupled with his bold use of paint creates an exquisite “telling” of the glitz and grit that makes New York one of the most fascinating cities in the world.
Varriano’s oil paintings become a highly personal and intimate affair with the city’s populace; opening the windows to New York apartments with their sumptuous and sometimes squalid conditions, ascending and descending the stairs with subway commuters on a typical workday, confronting the dire surroundings and psychological devastation of the city’s homeless, and engaging with the beautiful people in the restaurants and clubs that propagate a habitat for deal making.
Varriano’s rapture with the city lies in the proliferation and immediacy of its contrasts. For every luxury, there is poverty. To every achievement, there is failure. For every joy, despair. For every fulfilled desire, disappointment and want. For every virtue, vice. This plethora of human experience transforms the city into a gravitational field, irresistibly pulling millions towards its center.
An artist adept with diverse mediums, Varriano chose oil paint for this body of work owing to its receptive qualities. The tactility of the paint lends to the expressive depiction of textures such as flesh and fabric, concrete and wood, plastic and steel, glass and paper; all prominent components of city life. The scale of his pieces range from demure to grand, with copious compositions as small as 16 x 20 inches and meticulously orchestrated fugues measuring 8 feet in height.
Featured Works
John Varriano, American Artist
John Varriano, American Artist
Internationally recognized, John Varriano, American Artist is best known for his multi-disciplinary mastery of the visual arts. His provocative body of work possesses that sublime ability to strike suddenly and deeply at one's inner being. Rich and robust colors seem to pop off the canvas while a magical melding of layers reveal carefully crafted, finely honed psychological examinations.
Varriano’s figurative and portraiture paintings display an exceptional talent for delivering unabashed proclamations of the human condition. For Varriano, the blinding beauty of the subject matter is made more exquisite and whole by the dark and hidden material that lies beneath. It is always the shadows, materially and metaphorically, that allow one to see and experience the light.
Varriano’s figurative works plunge us into the depths of the psyche. These paintings spark a more profound understanding of the human condition and act as a mirror for the ever-evolving development of the soul.
Peering into the cool depths of a deal-maker's eyes, we discover the calm composure that plays a powerful role in successful negotiations. Journeying with commuters to and from work, we experience the daily grind that wears us out and the random impetuses that awaken and remind us that we are alive. Privy to people's private, domestic rituals, we gain a more intimate and personal knowledge of one another. Witnessing the ravaging effects of vice, squalor, and homelessness, we encounter the suffering that cuts deeply into ourselves and our society.
Contemplating Varriano's many figures, we realize that in observing others so perceptively, we come to a deeper understanding of ourselves. The human condition is a shared condition. As the soul opens itself to this truth, it becomes more distinctly collective, at the same time, more distinctly individual. We find ourselves that much closer to becoming who we were born to be.
National and International Recognition
John Varriano was the first artist in more than 50 years to have a painting featured on the cover of the New York Times accompanied by an in-depth article. NBC news dedicated a special television segment on the artist that proved so popular it ran in New York taxi cabs for a month. Globo TV, Brazil’s largest network and ABC.es in Spain have also featured stories on the Varriano. Among other media outlets have been Vanity Fair and Greenwich Time.
Exhibitions
Varriano has exhibited his work in galleries in New York City, Greenwich, Palm Beach and Abu Dhabi. Since 2024 he is represented globally by Bellaron Gallery, located on the upper east side of Manhattan.
John Varriano, American Artist
John Varriano, American Artist
Internationally recognized, John Varriano, American Artist is best known for his multi-disciplinary mastery of the visual arts. His provocative body of work possesses that sublime ability to strike suddenly and deeply at one's inner being. Rich and robust colors seem to pop off the canvas while a magical melding of layers reveal carefully crafted, finely honed psychological examinations.
Varriano’s figurative and portraiture paintings display an exceptional talent for delivering unabashed proclamations of the human condition. For Varriano, the blinding beauty of the subject matter is made more exquisite and whole by the dark and hidden material that lies beneath. It is always the shadows, materially and metaphorically, that allow one to see and experience the light.
Varriano’s figurative works plunge us into the depths of the psyche. These paintings spark a more profound understanding of the human condition and act as a mirror for the ever-evolving development of the soul.
Peering into the cool depths of a deal-maker's eyes, we discover the calm composure that plays a powerful role in successful negotiations. Journeying with commuters to and from work, we experience the daily grind that wears us out and the random impetuses that awaken and remind us that we are alive. Privy to people's private, domestic rituals, we gain a more intimate and personal knowledge of one another. Witnessing the ravaging effects of vice, squalor, and homelessness, we encounter the suffering that cuts deeply into ourselves and our society.
Contemplating Varriano's many figures, we realize that in observing others so perceptively, we come to a deeper understanding of ourselves. The human condition is a shared condition. As the soul opens itself to this truth, it becomes more distinctly collective, at the same time, more distinctly individual. We find ourselves that much closer to becoming who we were born to be.
National and International Recognition
John Varriano was the first artist in more than 50 years to have a painting featured on the cover of the New York Times accompanied by an in-depth article. NBC news dedicated a special television segment on the artist that proved so popular it ran in New York taxi cabs for a month. Globo TV, Brazil’s largest network and ABC.es in Spain have also featured stories on the Varriano. Among other media outlets have been Vanity Fair and Greenwich Time.
Exhibitions
Varriano has exhibited his work in galleries in New York City, Greenwich, Palm Beach and Abu Dhabi. Since 2024 he is represented globally by Bellaron Gallery, located on the upper east side of Manhattan.
