Anthony Falcetta is an abstract painter from just north of Boston. He grew up in Manchester, Connecticut, where the contrasts between the surrounding rural landscape and the brick mill buildings of his hometown left a deep impression. His paintings look both 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. Anthony sees his painting process as a negotiation of sorts — between control and the release of control; boundaries or the blurring or breaking of boundaries; structure vs. de-structure. Paintings take different trajectories depending on decisions made during his improvisational painting process, and so the work functions as a record, built in layers of choices, redirections and chance happenings. The paintings’ harder geometries are tempered and humanized by these evidences of their making. Anthony studied painting at Massachusetts College of Art and Design in Boston, graduating with a BFA With Distinction in 2001. He has been exhibiting regionally and elsewhere for the last 20 years, and his pieces are included in numerous collections on the East and West Coasts. He has attended a monthlong residency at Vermont Studio Center, as well as curating group shows in Boston-area venues and online.