Opening Reception for Gerry Stecca’s Tree Wraps: A Permanent Outdoor Installation

Miami based Artist Gerry Stecca will install a series of Tree Wraps from his Clothespins series of Sculptural Installations. Consisting of thousands of Wood Clothespins, these installations present the viewer with a message of conservation and remind us of simpler times. Please join us for an opening reception catered by Old Fashion Foods, Dewey’s Café, Neumeier Nursery and Florist, @Urban Magazine, and the Farmers Cooperative.

Wood clothespins are the core of this artist's current body of work. Patiently hand drilled and threaded with wire in a loom like process, the sections are created and connected to another. The work flows as planned, yet it often changes directions due to the nuances and accidents of the process and medium itself. Each installation requires hundreds of clothespins. For this installation the artist will wrap the four trees on A Street facing RAM's new entrance. The artist and assistants (UAFS students) will work on the installation two days prior to the opening, that will be also be a celebration of EARTH DAY.

Although the sculptural pieces are connected by the nature of the media and repetitive techniques, the individual works inspire different interpretations, which the artist finds encouraging and often enlightening. A great deal of near meditative patience is applied, and the artist usually works on more than one piece at the time.

Stecca is originally from Venezuela and has shown in prestigious institutions and galleries nationally as the Frost Museum of Art, University of Main Museum of Art, Cahoon Museum of American Art, Bakehouse Art Complex Gallery of Miami, Art Basel Miami Beach, and the Fort Lauderdale Museum of Art.