Christopher Varmus
Brooklyn, NY

My work moves between ink, collage, and installation—an attempt to map the unstable edges of experience. Using nontraditional surfaces like Yupo and transparent film, I build layered fields where gesture, residue, and chance collaborate. Each piece begins as an improvisation, but what remains are traces of care and repair: a visual language of persistence.

Drawing from a background in social work and gardening, I think of making as a form of relational care—an inquiry into how materials hold memory and how attention becomes its own medium. The process often echoes daily negotiation: between clarity and blur, self and collective, grief and humor. 

Recent works incorporate elements of community and collaboration, informed by conversations across places—Brooklyn, Upstate New York, Worcester, and North Adams. The studio becomes a porous site where private reflection meets shared space. My goal is to create work whose meaning will continue to evolve within the spaces it inhabits, sparking curiosity in viewers and rewarding close inspection.