Lance "Varg" Vargas

Varg is a New Orleans restoration, salvaged / rescued wood folk / naive / outsider artist. The son of a sailor, Varg spent his youth moving from port city to port city and watching a lot of road go by and reading books. He spent his teen-age years on the Redneck Riviera and has spent six years in six years in New Orleans. He has been to 11 Carnivals.

He makes his art in his 12' x 10 foot shed on days when weather permits.

Varg is inspired by four hundred year old pine, murder ballads, stringed instruments, female vocalists, general relativity and quantum mechanics, folk tales, gossip, conspiracy theories, highways, bunny rabbits, public radio, brass bands and amber spirits.

He currently lives in the Algiers Point neighborhood of New Orleans.