Papel Picado is a newest installation by artist Blessing Hancock in Phoenix, AZ. It celebrates local values of the Grant Park, Central Park and Warehouse Districts. Seventeen historic buildings and community landmarks have been integrated into the artwork designs of the painted steel station screens and railing panels. The aesthetic takes inspiration from the Mexican…
Gizmo is proud to announce the current installation of “Loqui”, a monumental sculpture we have built for the new Fairgrounds in Nashville, Tennessee. Standing at approximately 40 feet tall, this striking sculpture is the creation of renowned artist Blessing Hancock, with whom Gizmo has fostered a longstanding and fruitful partnership. Having frequently entrusted us with…
This summer Gizmo had the pleasure of fabricating “Uplifting Together” in collaboration with artist Joseph O’Connell, founder and creative director of Creative Machines. As of November 1st, Gizmo successfully completed the installation of “Uplifting Together” at the John Muir Health Hospital in Walnut Creek, CA. This piece will provide guests of the wing a serene view and calming space to inhabit…
This is the first new memorial in Golden Gate Park in more than 30 years. The BAYS Breast Cancer Memorial Garden has been designed by Penn Phillips and Julianna Fecskes Phillips of InsideOut Design. “Bay Area Young Survivors — a nonprofit support community for young people with breast cancer — has dreamt-up and funded the memorial garden, which is scheduled to open in early 2025. The BAYS Breast Cancer Memorial Garden will include…
Every year, the public art magazine Codaworx hosts a 3-day conference for artists, fabricators, and design teams to connect with each other and with members of the destination community about collaboration. This year, the CodaSummit took place in San Jose, right down the road from some of our recent museum projects, Los Altos History Museum and Alviso Adobe Milpitas. Gizmo…
CODAsummit:Art, Technology and Place October 4–6, 2023 San Jose, CA Mark Sabatino, President and Founder of Gizmo Art Production, Inc. will be presenting On October 5th, 2023 at 1:30pm in the Sobrato Auditorium All conference sessions will be held at the Hammer Theater located at 101 Paseo De San Antonio between 2nd St and N 3rd…
Gizmo is a RESIDENTIAL MERIT WINNER! Dear Mark, Congratulations on your CODAawards Merit Win! And what a fabulous entry it is! There was tough competition this year and you should be proud of this accomplishment. We were thrilled to receive 411 entries for the 2023 CODAawards from 23 countries around the world. Our jurors were…
“Piloti” by Marc Fornes is being fabricated and installed by Gizmo Art Production in Downtown Bellevue, Washington. Come check it out in April of 2023. This one of a kind piece by Marc Fornes features fluted columns rising up to form a canopy 23 feet high with perforated light coming through and was installed later…
Gizmo is so proud to have been involved in 2 of the 7 projects mentioned here. San Francisco parks do rock, and we got to provide the fence and gate system for Guy Place, as well as the Driftwood benches for the Presidio Tunnel Tops. Visit all of these new great places!
“Unum” is another really cool project brought about by the artist Blessing Hancock, whom we have had the pleasure of working with extensively in the past and presently on several other similar projects. A common Blessing Hancock motif that Unum has is the backlit metal text cutout face, typically composed of words, letters and sometimes…