Gizmo Art Production fabricated and installed Blessing Hancock’s Sculpture in Morgan Hill. The piece is used as a entryway to the Community center there. Gizmo welded the individual bike wheels to the rounded frame making it into an archway. Check out the article written in the Morgan Hill Like Newspaper – Q&A with Blessing Hancock:…
People travel from all over the globe to visit Alcatraz, run by the GGNPC, the former federal island prison that once held the likes of gangster Al Capone. Alcatraz is an iconic landmark amongst the San Francisco Bay and backdrop of Marin County. Gizmo really enjoys getting involved in the GGNPC projects and this is…
If an exhibition space needs something more to make it exceptional, Gizmo can create seamless, finished partitions. Our partitions of any size or color will assure mounting is consistent and stable to create a unique or intimate environment.
Artists are curious in nature and art is rooted in experimentation. With this in mind, we set out to design seating for creative people to engage with. SIMA is a sculptural seating installation inspired by ancient sandstone formations. It functions as a unique gathering place for students, faculty, staff and visitors, with a capacity to…
Gizmo has worked on many interactive exhibits employing water to educate and inspire museum visitors, but we have also had the pleasure of working with many well-known artists helping them create unique water sculptures and public works. Gizmo designs systems on a custom basis, using pumps, filters, piping, electronic relays and lighting to create one…
The Bay Area’s climate demands that outside signage last through relentless fog, as well as temperatures that fluctuate dramatically within a day. Gizmo’s signs have stood up to the pressures time and time again. We provide signs made from Corten steel, Stainless Steel, Galvanized and powder coated finishes. We also use Red Cedar, Cyprus, Redwood,…
Gizmo worked with SAWS to create the “Conservation Cottage at the Stockton Children’s Museum. This exhibit allows children to learn about water use and conservation solutions in a playhouse setting. The installation includes a cartoon theme, graphics for a custom video game, water bottle labels, a refrigerator with retractable plastic fruits and vegetables, underground garden window…
Gizmo utilizes overlapping techniques and styles to create permanent outdoor and indoor kinetic sculptures. Contracting with artist and institutions, Gizmo’s past projects include: A spinning silhouette of a saluting police officer, using granite, copper, stainless steel, bronze and glass by Michael Davis of MAD Art, outside the Metro Police Station in Kansas City Missouri. Gizmo…
Operation Babylift: Perspectives and Legacies explores the diverse experiences and lasting impacts of a dramatic airlift that removed more than 2,000 Vietnamese children from their war-torn country to be adopted by American families as Saigon fell in April 1975. The exhibition, co-curated by the Presidio Trust and the Adoption Museum Project, and designed by Volume,…
Gizmo has collaborated with many artists over the years to produce unique art commissions around the world but still continues to provide their unique services in their own backyard. Scott’s diverse practice explores our entangled relationship with objects and materiality through, what he calls, “poetic repurposing.” Scott identified Mark Sabatino (mark@gizmosf.com) of Gizmo as an…
