Beauty and decay conjugate in a superlative act to objectify a seamless truth within the desperation of the human condition; an attempt to decode for Castiglia, himself, the absurdity of the individual human experience. The lifeless human figures that infuse Castiglia's work, in his view, mirror an inevitable aspect of human existence (consequent nonbeing) and abstract the bridge (life), in an effort to evidence the symbiotic relationship between the two for the viewer. "My paintings tend to beautify as well as beatify the post-mortal state as it is inevitable, and equally profound, so we may understand it not as irrevocable doom, but possibly, as the climax of all purpose, a just end, a strongly-anticipated release from the carnal turmoil that plagues all humans at their core, explains Castiglia.

Vincent Castiglia lives and works in New York City