Kathryn Markel Fine Arts is pleased to announce an exhibition of new paintings by Anthony Falcetta. Falcetta’s abstractions center on color, surface and process, where what appears as form gives way to evidence of its making. The exhibition title Understory reflects this approach, evoking the forest floor and its accumulated layers. This is his second solo exhibition with the gallery. A reception for the artist will be held on April 9th from 6-8pm.
Drawing from his surroundings, Falcetta uses color and material to suggest both natural and built environments. Color relationships recall familiar spatial conditions, like an object resting on a surface or a form set against the sky, without becoming literal. Deep, saturated tones contrast with brighter passages of color, while shifts between warm and cool create depth. High-key accents activate the surface.
Working with a combination of acrylic paint, spray paint and gypsum compound, he builds and textures the surface to reinforce these contrasts. Each painting accumulates layers of revision where marks are erased, covered, and reworked over time. Driven by a “desire for structure,” Falcetta builds toward balance only to disrupt them, using what remains to inform the next move. The surfaces allow the viewer to trace the process of creation, as the artist notes “finished surfaces always hint at those deeper layers.” He further describes the work as one in which “time gets bent and shuffled, layers interlock and obscure each other, and edges become inconclusive,” reflecting his translation of observed environments into abstraction.
Anthony Falcetta lives and works in Beverly, MA, making paintings sparked by the observable, steered by instinct, and anchored in process. His work has been exhibited throughout the United States and is included in various private and corporate collections. Falcetta is a native of Manchester, CT, and a 2001 honors graduate of Massachusetts College of Art and Design in Boston.
