Harlan Vortex

Client: Ned Kahn Location: San Francisco,CA Date:  2020 This public art installation is located at 300 Grant Ave. Harlan Vortex is a 90-foot tall, Kinetic Artwork created by Ned Kahn and powered only by the wind. The rotating vanes will reflect light and color from the surrounding environment and sky, responding to changes in the wind and…

Gizmo installs Moto Ohtake kinetic sculpture

Gizmo has installed the first piece of public artwork along the San Francisco Central Subway line. The piece by Bay Area-based artist Moto Ohtake is called “Microcosmic”. The art piece is a stainless steel wind-activated kinetic sculpture mounted on a 40-foot light pole near 4th and Brannan streets; the site of a future platform station.…

Upcoming Projects With Ned Kahn

In the coming months Gizmo will have the pleasure of once again working with artist Ned Kahn on two outdoor installation projects. The first of these projects in collaboration with Cochran Studios is “Cloud Veil” to be installed in Columbia, Maryland. “Cloud Veil” is a large metal ring 12 feet off the ground in a…

Upcoming addition to the Bay Area Discovery Museum

Partnering with world renown architecture firm Olson Kundig and National Design Award winner landscape firm Surface Designs, Gizmo Art Production, Inc. will be designing and building the Bay Area Discovery Museum’s new “Canopy Climber”, an exciting outdoor play space for older children. In the area near what is known as the “Tot Spot” (an outdoor…