Anya Tish Gallery is pleased to announce the return of the highly acclaimed Texas-based artist, Vincent Falsetta, for his second solo exhibition with the gallery. In Dynamic Duality the artist continues his investigation of abstract gesture, process, and expression through layers of textured striations of color and underlying movement. 

For the first time in Houston, in addition to the artist’s iconic oil paintings, the exhibition will feature carefully calculated, multi-hued text drawings, which give the viewer a glimpse into the artist’s stream of thought, his day-to-day tasks, and to-do lists. Resembling a diary, the handwritten pen and ink text, referencing comic book speech bubbles, is a record of the artist’s daily activities, from the mundane to the exceptional. The meticulous watercolor rendering around the text provides an atmospheric context, allowing the speech bubbles to seemingly float on the surface. 

Unlike the inner-monologue drawings, the mercurial paintings reveal themselves as the artist creates them – at times surprising or confounding his expectations. Falsetta elegantly weaves color into each chromatically dynamic piece using idiosyncratic techniques, making the work feel painterly and, at the same time, meticulously rendered, equally object and illusion, deliberately planned and spontaneously improvised. The shattered movement of chromatic, pulsating shapes compels the viewer’s gaze to discover all the varying elements and dynamic textures. Using various hand pressures, rhythms and speeds, the artist brushes, blends, and pulls the paint across the canvas creating movement on a two-dimensional surface. Falsetta’s impressive labor-intensive works have a visual impact that forces the viewer to spend time discovering their minuscule intricacies. Painterly and textural, Falsetta’s works demand to be studied in order to grasp their underlying energy and distinct sophistication.