Client: Joseph O’Connell Commission: John Muir Health Hospital Category: Public Art Location: Walnut Creek, CA Date: November 2023 Gizmo Art Production, Inc. 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…
Client: The City of Milpitas Category: Exhibits Location: Milpitas, CA Date: Fall 2022 Gizmo worked on interpretive graphics, accessioned objects, electronic media, custom elements, woodwork, minor restoration work, and 3D tactile elements. Includes all installation, project management, shop drawings and site visits. We worked with designers from The Sibbett Group to recreate the feel of the building from when…
Name of Piece: Journey Through Time Artist: Serge Attukwei Clottey Category: Public Art Location: San Diego, CA Date: April 2025 A vibrant architectural sculpture made with the artist’s signature yellow plastic material, repurposed from Ghanaian “Kufuor gallons”. This installation, which encompasses both a wayfinding space and acts as a bright yellow beacon, uses Clottey’s visual…
Using tiles that were hand made by Magnolia editions, Gizmo fabricated and installed this mural by artist Clare Rojas in the Chinatown station at the new SF subway station. Client: San Francisco Arts Commission Category: Public Art Location San Francisco, CA Date: 2022 A Sense of Community, “features a variety of unique Silk Road textiles…
Name of Piece: Home and the World Artist: Ranu Mukherjee Category: Public Art Location: San Francisco, CA Date: January 2025 The new Mercy House California (MHC) development located at 600 7th street in San Francisco, CA is now home to Home and the World by artist Ranu Mukherjee. This piece consists of a series…
Client: Blessing Hancock Commission: City of Santa Rosa Public Art Program Category: Public Art Location: Santa Rosa, CA Date: December 2022 “Unum” is a large-scale public sculpture in The Old Courthouse Square in Santa Rosa, California. It is composed of stainless steel and LED lighting. The lattice consists of words from 32 different languages, most commonly…
Sculpture: Feather Wall Artist: Ned Kahn Location: Green Clinic Pavillion, San Antonio, TX Date: November 2024 Gizmo worked closely with the artist to finalize the flap design. We then replaced 5000 aluminum flaps with the newly designed Teflon fabric flaps. “The artwork seeks to dissolve the boundary between architecture and atmosphere, linking the building to…
Artists: Jacqueline Metz , Nancy Chew Location: Beaverton, OR Date: 2022 “Puff” is an interactive, suspended, magical motion sculpture made from rearview mirrors outstretched from a stainless steel sphere. “Puff” hangs in the beautiful light-filled lobby of the Patricia Reser Center for the Arts and greets visitors by turning upon their movements using built-in motion sensors.…
Gizmo worked with artists Taraneh Hemami to fabricate and install the tessellated stainless sculpture. Client: Taraneh Hemami and Carmel Partners Category: Public Art Location: Oakland, CA Date: September 2021 A sculptural tree with tessellated canopies made of mirrored steel and iridescent glass is a new icon at the corner of 13th and Franklin Street in downtown…
Gizmo worked with Mexican artist Ana Teresa Fernández to fabricate and install the kinetic word sculpture that overlooks a SF highway. Client: Ana Teresa Fernández Category: Kinetic Sculpture Location: San Francisco, CA Date: October 2016 The “Dream” sculpture idea came from the artist, Ana Teresa Fernandez. The sculpture was installed on the back of Bernal…
