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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

Performances & Workshops

Sep 14
Audience Apparition by Nate Page
Sep 20
Solar Sun Chime Workshop with David Casey
Sep 20
Plant Preservation and Natural Perfumery Workshop with instructor Divya Anantharaman
Sep 20
Paper Cutting Workshop with Kaitlynn Redell
Sep 21
Letter Writing Workshop with Mercedes Teixido
Sep 23
Materiality and Signification Tour with Ryan Taber
Sep 23
Joinery and Decoration Tour with Ryan Taber
Sep 30
Joinery and Decoration Tour with Ryan Taber
Sep 23
Tone and Cadence Tour with Ryan Taber
Sep 24
Curator Tour with Mark Allen
Sep 26
Gamble House Archeological Dig by Annie Danis
Sep 27
Gamble House Archeological Dig by Annie Danis
Sep 27
Waterfall by Nick Duran
Sep 27
Secret Restaurant by Bob Dornberger
Sep 27
Poets in Closets by Machine Project
Sep 27
MASS (at home) by Milka Djordjevich
Sep 27
Bed Conversations by Sasha Archibald
Sep 27
Decho Tech Sunshine by Animal Charm
Sep 27
Projected Shadows Video Installation by Raphael Arar & Chris Weisbart
Sep 27
The Hour of the Cat by Johanna Hedva
Sep 28
The Gamble Birdhouse Workshop with Scout Regalia
Sep 28
Afternoon Tea with the Women of the Gamble House with the Women’s Center for Creative Work
Oct 1
Curator Tour with Mark Allen
Oct 1
The Urban Cat Architecture Workshop with Keith Rocka Knittel
Oct 2
Poets in Closets by Machine Project
Oct 2
MASS (at home) by Milka Djordjevich
Oct 2
Projected Shadows Video Installation by Raphael Arar & Chris Weisbart
Oct 2
Necessary Interruption by Jibade-Khalil Huffman
Oct 4
Soap Making Workshop with Lisa Anne Auerbach
Oct 4
Embroidering in Architecture Workshop with Jenny Hart
Oct 5
The Hand is the Window onto the Mind by Sarah Roberts
Oct 5
Group Naps by Paul Fraser
Oct 5
Landslide by Rafa Esparza
Oct 5
Drawing With Ghosts

FULCRUM ARTS
145 N. Raymond Ave.
Pasadena, CA 91103

626-793-8171