Solo Exhibition at Alessandro Berni Gallery, New York
May 29 – June 29, 2025
Open from Tuesday through Saturday, 11am-6pm
532 W 28th Street, New York, NY
Alessandro Berni Gallery is pleased to present Mending My Garden, a solo exhibition of new work by New York-based artist Borinquen Gallo, on view from May 29 through June 29, 2025 at the gallery’s Chelsea location. An opening reception will be held on Thursday, May 29th from 6 to 9pm, with the artist in attendance.
In Mending My Garden, Gallo brings together a series of intricate sculptural installations that reframe our relationship to waste, beauty, and resilience. Through a meticulous and deeply process-driven approach, Gallo transforms disposable, everyday materials—trash bags, debris netting, caution tape—into visually striking weavings and spatial interventions. The exhibition underscores her ongoing commitment to uncovering meaning in what we typically overlook.
“The inherent qualities of materials that we consume and dispose resonate for me on a personal and social scale,” Gallo explains. “Through manipulating and reconfiguring ordinary, disposable materials into new combinations, I extrapolate a beauty in unexpected places while redirecting the viewers’ expectations of what is overlooked and discardable.”
Her practice draws inspiration from weaving traditions, architectural structures, and domestic craft. By twisting, braiding, and threading synthetic materials into complex forms, Gallo creates artworks that function as visual metaphors—meditations on the tension between nature and artifice, the permanent and the ephemeral, the individual and the collective.
“My work is marked by an emphasis on process,” she continues. “Twisting, braiding, weaving these materials becomes a way to domesticate, redeem, and humanize my surroundings. Notions relating to domesticity, spirituality, scientific progress, desire, and consumption—and how these in turn affect my sense of self and my relationship to others—are central to my installations.”
With Mending My Garden, Gallo invites viewers into a space that is both personal and political, tactile and conceptual—a reimagined garden where discarded remnants become symbols of healing and interconnectedness. In her hands, the synthetic becomes soulful, the broken made whole, and the ignored brought back into focus.
For press inquiries, images, or to schedule an interview with the artist, please contact:
art@alessandroberni.com or +1 (845) 570-2632
