The Machine Project Field Guide to The Gamble House
During the two-week AxS Festival: Curiosity, our experimental tours and dances, group naps, operatic bird beaks, seances, videos, architectural lawn furniture–and a secret Swiss-Japanese fusion restaurant–transform and reveal the history and visual ideas behind the Gamble House in subtle and not-so-subtle ways.
Complementing those live events, our installation of contemporary paintings and sculptures by notable California artists throughout the house juxtaposes today’s artistic ideas with 1909’s architectural style. On-site, hands-on workshops offer lessons in topics ranging from soap-making to solar robotics, from Craftsman-style cat houses to basic electronics, brings the Arts and Crafts movement in parallel with today’s Maker groups.
Projects are listed in detail below, on display will be works by: Jeff Elrod, Cayetano Ferrer, Asher Hartman, Katie Herzog, Emily Joyce, Candice Lin, Sandeep Mukherjee, Rebecca Morris, Michael O’Malley, Laura Owens, Lauralee Pope, Jennifer Rochlin, Anna Sew Hoy, Ricky Swallow and Henry Taylor.
The Gamble House was designed in 1908 by the brothers architects Charles and Henry Greene. It was commissioned by David and Mary Gamble. Ten months later, the house was completed using a team no larger than ten craftsmen.
Exhibitions
Gamble House Roof Sculptures by Matthew Au
The Swirling Mess Below the Sleeping Porch Soon Solidified into A Crest of Phantasmagoric Weight that Creaks Between the Doors, the Floors, and a Form that Could Never Be a House Again by Patrick Ballard
The Ultimate Bungalow! by Jessica Cowley
Lawn Drawing (Gamble House Interior Detail) Ken Ehrlich
Object for Plants by Michael O’Malley
Psychic Reading of the Gamble House by David Fenster and Asher Hartman
