New Work:

Family Game Night: The Dove Block Project

Opens Saturday, March 1st, 4-6 PM

Geneva, NY

The Dove Block Project, 465 Exchange Street, Geneva, NY 14456, 315-325-8160, info@thedoveblockproject.org

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Family Game Night at The Dove:

Warner K. Varno has explored the notion of home, family, and relationship since 2011 through several mixed media painting series: The Japan Birds Project, House-Nest Series, Celebration Series, Bone and Bird Family Portraits, and more recently, CORVID Love, featuring a series of mixed media paintings on presencing through the visual arts paired with Crow Sketches. “The crows spoke for me, telling stories of hope within the struggle, and a desire for reconnection to self, loved ones, and the natural world in the years following a global pandemic. The crows are a path of inquiry into the most complex stories of relationship, loving, and letting go; when there are often no words, there is presencing through the visual arts, where your truth can be discovered.” In Family Game Night the crows continue to share mercurial and curious nature and smarts, their wish to play, to communicate, to adapt, and to survive, while calling to us to look through our windows, walk out our doors, and come outside. They have invited some friends into the conversation; “birds of prey,” and other feathered friends in a new series of mixed media paintings, Game-Board collages, and Gutted Books, paired with images of bones and blooms, and various wallpaper references from the 19th Century to the 1970s.

Bird Window Three: Nothing Gold Can Stay, 24" x 36"

Bird Window One: When Dove's Cry, 16" x 16"

Bone and Bird Sketches, Femur and Dove, 6" x 6"

Bird and Bone Sketches: Right Foot and Dove, 6" x 6"

Crow Window: Murder of Crows, 20" x 108"

Crow Window Triptych (a murder of crows, A).jpg

Crow Window Triptych (a murder of crows, B).jpg

Crow Window Triptych (a murder of crows, C).jpg

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