Anya Tish Gallery is pleased to announce the return of Vincent Falsetta for his long-awaited solo exhibition with the gallery. In Sensing the Pulse the artist continues his investigation of abstract gesture, process, and expression through layers of textured striations of color and underlying movement. Falsetta forms paintings that are equally object and illusion, deliberately planned and spontaneously improvised.

The paintings reveal themselves as he creates them – at times, surprising or confounding his expectations. They can be described as objects that evoke the natural world while acknowledging the technology that measures or records it. His paintings, distinctly abstract, tend to suggest waves of sound, light or seismic activity. He elegantly weaves color into each piece using idiosyncratic techniques, applying paint and making the work feel painterly and at the same time meticulously rendered.

Falsetta is interested in the actual physical properties of the paint, the plasticity of the medium and painting as an object. He brushes on, blends, and drags thick oil paint in wet-on-wet technique using various hand pressures, rhythms and speeds. He produces pulsing multi-hued abstractions from a single unified paint film. Although carefully planned in regard to palette and process, his work forms a strange blend between the appearance of spontaneity and the appearance of control.