Tree in Presidio to become Tunnel Top bench fabricated and intsalled by Gizmo Art Production

130 year old tree to become Tunnel Top Benches

The Presidio’s Mother Tree The Story Behind the Tunnel Tops Benches Before becoming some of the most recognizable custom benches at San Francisco’s Presidio Tunnel Tops, these monumental timbers began as a fallen Monterey Cypress deep within the Presidio itself. In January of 2022, the Tunnel Tops project team coordinated the removal of an extraordinary…

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.…

Jim Campbell’s The Journey Opens at San Diego Regional County Airport

Gizmo happily worked with Jim Campbell to make his work, The Journey come to life at our San Francisco studio, where our technicians were responsible for assembling (which consists of 36,000  individually hung LED-lit handmade blue glass spheres), crating, shipping, and installing the art piece. The work, the artist’s largest public art piece to date,…