The Making of a Multidisciplinary Artist.

Gabriel grew up on his father’s gunite pool job sites. His earliest steps were taken inside a pool under construction. Craft, systems, and discipline weren’t lessons he learned later, they were the environment that shaped him.

That lineage now continues through his two sons. His youngest is already most at home in and around the water; his oldest, Mayson, carries the tradition forward as the third generation, leading Messuti Care with the same dedication to precision and mastery.

Foundations: craft, systems, discipline, generational mastery

While learning the trade in the field, Gabriel developed a second language: art and music.
Advanced placement art, composition, piano and violin since age six, and years of orchestra training shaped his eye for proportion, rhythm, and pattern.

Gabriel earned a scholarship to the John J. Cali School of Music, studying under Oscar Ravina of the New York Philharmonic and earning first-seat, second violin.

Music became the framework for understanding structure, precision, and the invisible patterns that hold complex systems together.

At 18, inspired by his uncle, Gabriel earned his real estate license and began learning land use, subdivisions, zoning, and development — adding an analytical layer to his artistic and construction roots.

A cancer diagnosis abruptly knocked him out of school.
Unable to hold his violin after surgery, discouraged and unsure of the future, he entered a crucible that reshaped his resilience, energy, and philosophy.

During treatment, Gabriel worked full-time in real estate.
Small tasks for fellow agents evolved into remodels, additions, and eventually the development of multi-million-dollar homes and mixed-use townhomes, managing the full cycle from land to approvals to construction.

His development pipeline grew, his health stabilized, and his first son, Mayson, was born — unknowingly becoming the 3rd generation of the family legacy.

The crash was a defining blow.
It taught Gabriel the hard truths of timing, leverage, and the dangers of building without full control.

This is where the “certainty” in Art × Certainty™ begins.

For the first time, Gabriel paused.
He returned to Montclair State to finish what cancer interrupted, graduating with honors in Music Theory & Composition and writing for film and television.

Simultaneously, he studied healing arts, physiology, breathwork, somatics, and regenerative systems.

Gabriel began to see the body the same way he saw buildings, music, and design — as an interconnected structure governed by invisible patterns, forces, and tensions.

This became the philosophical backbone of Art × Certainty™.

Gabriel designed and built SUMMUS Yoga & Jiu Jitsu, a state-of-the-art wellness facility integrating float tanks, infrared sauna, cryotherapy, and elite instruction.

It became his laboratory for studying energy, performance, and human systems at the highest level.

Gabriel returned to construction and aquatic design with an entirely new lens:
music’s precision, wellness’s systems thinking, development’s strategy, and three generations of craft.

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Today, Gabriel serves as a Design Concierge + Owner’s Representative for distinctive properties — leading complex outdoor living and pool projects with a rare blend of generational craft, development experience, engineering insight, and artistic vision.Description goes here