Anthony Falcetta
Artist Statement
My work uses a hybrid visual and material language to examine the shapes and
seams holding my surroundings together. Observed or recalled details and colors
provide a starting place, quickly transmuted and obscured as the painting
progresses — but these elements are never lost, as every painting decision
surrenders to and shapes the next.
For me, painting is both slow and spontaneous; it relies on practice, constant
mental notekeeping, and a desire for structure, while the physical processes of
painting allow for improvisational responses to change and the workings of
chance.
My recent work has been focused on construction and demolition: layers of forms
and color are abstracted from my urban/suburban surroundings, brought to a state
of balance or completeness, then torn down by scraping, abrading and otherwise
trashing the surface. The resulting textures and ruins then serve as the basis for
rebuilding the piece in a new direction.
Artist Bio
Anthony Falcetta is an abstract painter from just north of Boston, Massachusetts.
His paintings look to the built environments of city and suburb, and the interior
spaces of mind and memory, while operating fully in the realm of materials and
process. He holds a BFA with Distinction (2001) from Massachusetts College of
Art and Design, and has exhibited regularly over the past two decades in Boston,
Denver, and New York. Anthony is pleased to be represented at Space Gallery,
and at The Schoolhouse Gallery in Provincetown, MA.
Selected Exhibitions
Solo exhibitions
2015
*you are here • Mingo Gallery, Beverly, MA.
2013
brownfields / paradise green • Mingo Gallery, Beverly, MA.
2008-2010
Paintings at the Onyx Hotel • Onyx Hotel, Boston, MA. (2-yr installation)
2007
Ongoing Events • Judi Rotenberg Gallery, Boston, MA.
2006
Anthony Falcetta (Recent Paintings) • Oylan Gallery, Cambridge, MA.
Selected group exhibitions
2021
Gatherings • Schoolhouse Gallery, Provincetown, MA.
2020
Grey | Gray (Matter) • Divisible Projects, Dayton, OH.
Excavation: Layers of Meaning • New Bedford Art Museum, New Bedford, MA.
2019
Fall Salon / Momentum • Space Gallery, Denver, CO.
Boston Key Party • Stove Factory Gallery, Boston, MA.
Pushing Forward • Kingston Gallery, Boston, MA.
2018
Hard Lines: An Exploration of Geometry • Space Gallery, Denver, CO.
Entangle • Kingston Gallery, Boston, MA.
OnEdge • The Painting Center, New York, NY.
Space Invaders • Fountain Street Gallery, Boston, MA.
2017
Vice Versa • PLEAT Gallery
Leah Dyjak/Anthony Falcetta/Marty Epp-Carter/Joel Janowitz/Ted Kincaid/Tom
Nozkowski • Schoolhouse Gallery, Provincetown, MA.
Show of Hands • Fort Point Arts Community Gallery, Boston, MA.
Overlaid & Underpinned • Curating Contemporary (curator/artist)
2016
Summer Crush / REBOOT • Schoolhouse Gallery, Provincetown, MA.
Chroma: A New England Art Awakening • Montserrat Gallery, Montserrat College
of Art, Beverly, MA.
Temporal Transcendent • Brickbottom Gallery, Somerville, MA. (curator/artist)
2015
Small Works 4 • Jeffrey Leder Gallery, LIC, New York, NY.
ABOVE / BELOW / WITHIN • Porter Mill Gallery, Beverly, MA.
International Painting NYC IV • Jeffrey Leder Gallery, LIC, New York, NY.
CHROMA • Gallery 263, Cambridge, MA.
Visual Alchemy • Fountain Street Fine Art, Framingham, MA.
Anthony Falcetta & Mark Thayer • Art Focus/New England Biolabs, Ipswich, MA.
2014
New England Collective V • Galatea Fine Arts, Boston, MA.
Landscape at the Edge • Hera Gallery, Wakefield, RI.
2012
Small Works Show • Mingo Gallery, Beverly, MA.
2009
The Elements: EARTH • Sacred Heart University, Fairfield, CT.
2004
Fresh From Providence: Dave Cole, Anthony Falcetta, Xander Marro •Judi
Rotenberg Gallery, Boston, MA.
Introductions 2004 (4-person) • Judi Rotenberg Gallery, Boston, MA.
Residencies, curatorial and professional activities
2017
Curator, Overlaid & Underpinned. Curating Contemporary website,
www.curatingcontemporary.com
2016
Vermont Studio Center, Johnson, VT. 4-week residency, artist grant.
Curator, Temporal Transcendent. Brickbottom Gallery, Somerville, MA.
Education
2001
Painting BFA w/ Distinction. Massachusetts College of Art & Design, Boston, MA.
Publications
Publications
“New NBAM exhibit layers diverse works for a powerful end product” (review), Don
Wilkinson, South Coast Today, New Bedford, MA. 2/13/2020.
“Hard Lines: An Exploration of Geometry Makes a Case at Space” (review),
Michael Paglia, Westword arts/culture news, Denver, CO. 8/22/2018.
“Ten Kingston Associates: ENTANGLED at Kingston Gallery” (review), Jacob
Cutler, Artscope Magazine, Boston, MA. 7/25/2018.
CHROMA, vol.3, featured artist w/interview. Annual, Tryptic Press, Beverly, MA. July 2016.
“Anthony Falcetta at Rotenberg,” Franklin Einspruch, Artblog. 1/16/2007.
“Anthony Falcetta,” Greg Cook, New England Journal of Aesthetic Research blog. 1/22/07.
“Room for Personal Style,” Jeffrey Osborne. Boston Globe Magazine, 3/14/2004.
