CODAsummit Virtual: The Intersection of Art, Technology and Place

Gizmo Art Production’s presentation will speak on their expertise in fabrication and installation for monumental sculptures created in their SF based studio helping artists and institutions elevate their work to its highest potential. Check us out at CODAWORX Gizmo is a creative company dedicated to designing and building interactive objects and unique environments that astonish,…

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…

Gumnut Grove is coming soon to Bay Area Discovery Museum

“In Gumnut Grove, older children ages 5-10 will have a dedicated space to engage in the type of unstructured, outdoor play that is far less common today than it was even a generation ago. Named for the seedpod of a eucalyptus tree, Gumnut Grove highlights and enhances BADM’s natural landscape with fun, age-appropriate features that…

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…