Anthony Falcetta
My paintings start without a plan and usually progress something like building a bridge while crossing it. Formally, I’m inspired by sources in the built environment: interior and exterior space, mundane objects, bright colors, hard edges and sharp shadows, street architecture and road markings, and weathered commercial signage. I’m fascinated by the way paint layers can hold time, conceal and reveal history, and serve as a form of material memory. In the physical world, time and use will wear down textures and alter colors in unintended ways, a process that I’ve adopted for my work by incorporating complete teardowns of my surfaces when needed. That’s what really hooks me about painting: the uncertainty and the possibility.
Anthony Falcetta’s abstract acrylic paintings consist of hard-edged planes of bold, flat color that float over soft atmospheric underlayers pulsing with warm chromatic light. It is the contrast between the controlled geometry above and organic, spontaneity below that creates the tension. The controlling upper level doesn’t totally obscure the organic lower in which lies the evidence of the painting’s evolution.
Anthony Falcetta is a native of Manchester, CT, and a 2001 graduate of Massachusetts College of Art and Design in Boston. His work has been exhibited around New England, New York, Denver and elsewhere, and is included in various private and corporate collections. He lives and works in Beverly, Massachusetts, making paintings sparked by the observable, steered by instinct, and anchored in process. Anthony Falcetta is represented by Kathryn Markel Fine Arts in New York with galleries at 179 10th Avenue, and 529 W 20th Street.