Celebrating Chuck Varga
By GWAR Store
Bohabs! Today we honor the legendary Sexecutioner, our favorite Frenchman - and more importantly - his human slave Chuck Varga. As you all know well, Chuck has been an integral part of your Lords and Master efforts to conquer this puny planet since nearly the beginning of time.
In honor of him and his courageous battle with the particularly human ailment cancer, we encourage you all to visit this page on our site, find a blood bank near you, and donate whatever blood GWAR hasn't already taken from you.
In return for that donation, we will give each of you one free, limited edition shirt, designed by Chuck himself. Click here to see how.
All hail Sexecutioner! All hail Chuck Varga!
Chuck Varga is an American sculptor, set designer and Rockstar best known as a founding member of the theatrical shock-rock band GWAR and creator of the character Sexecutioner.
Varga (b. 1958, Virginia) is a multidisciplinary artist whose practice spans sculpture, scenic painting, special effects, comic art, and performance. After studying at Virginia CommonwealthUniversity in the early 1980s, he co-founded Slave Pit Studios inRichmond, Virginia, where he helped develop GWAR, an art driven, costume-heavy rock project that grew out of a group of college artists and musicians experimenting with film, comics ,and performance. Within GWAR, Varga created and performed the character Sexecutioner, contributing to eight major touring productions, a gold record and over a thousand shows across the United States and Europe, while also co-authoring two feature-length films, including the Grammy-nominated “Phallus in Wonderland,” and designing costumes, sets, props, and comicbook narratives for the band’s extended universe.
Varga describes himself as “one part performer, one part designer and one part sculptor,” reflecting an x-rated aesthetic that merges pulp science fiction, underground comics, and dark humor into large-scale, “eye-popping” practical effects, sculptures and live “performances “.
In 1997 Chuck left the band to work on Broadway, Film andTelevision in NYC. He would occasionally perform with the band and finally retired on Halloween Scumdog Reunion 2021.
Along the way he befriended the likes of Joe Coleman andRobert Williams and many other outsider artists. Varga met hissoon to be wife Bambi the Mermaid at the Coney Island MermaidParade. It was love at first sight and the two were married therein 2017. He merged his absurdist theatre with her Neo-burlesqueperformances and became a staple at the legendary not_forprofitarts organization Coney Island USA where he reigned asresident Neptune.
Varga divides his time between fine art and underground theaterprojects, continuing to evolve the blend of spectacle, satire, andhandcrafted fantasy that defined his GWAR years with adelightfully unwholesome splash of Neo-burlesque charm.