As much as my work resists verbal analysis it does continue to reference technology and its interaction with both contemporary culture and traditional painting.  Using an idiosyncratic means of applying paint, I call attention to the plasticity of the medium and to the painting as an object, as opposed to a flat image.  But, while the waves I produce are quietly literal, they also have an undeniable graphic presence that corresponds to printed recordings of sound waves, seismic waves and other forms of electronic readings.  Though the paintings are planned and calculated to a high degree, I eventually let go of the predetermined systems that I have imposed, and resolve each painting intuitively.  Hundreds of on-the-spot decisions are made, with results that form a strange blend between the appearance of spontaneity and the appearance of control.

Vincent Falsetta
2008