Allen Christian surveys which art to put up for sale this weekend in his crowded House of Balls before moving the studio to a larger space.

The House of Balls is rolling down the road to a new and bigger home, so owner Allen Christian is having a moving sale this weekend. After 28 years in the North Loop (current studio location is 212 Third Ave. N., across from the Monte Carlo), the artist/ oracle-on-demand is setting up shop just off the Cedar/Riverside LRT station in a much higher-profile spot, a 2,800-square foot building, most recently home to the underground music club Medusa, that features twice the space he currently has plus a 1/3-acre outdoor plot for larger-scale work.

To habitues of the Warehouse District, the House of Balls has been much more than your average gallery or studio. Opening hours were random, but you could push buttons on the door that would light up figures inside and allow passersby to record messages or hear Christian's answers to life's knottiest questions.

Christian, whose signature carved bowling balls have expanded to all sorts of sculpture and multimedia works made with recycled everything, said he sees the move as a way to "just let everything go and re-create myself." The sale is noon- 8p.m. Fri. and Sat. p.m. ,with more than 120 artworks plus art materials priced between $30 and $3,000.

Over the years, the House of Balls has attracted curious people of all stripes — most recently, with the addition of Target Field and sports bars to the neighborhood, people looking to buy baseballs and footballs, a trend likely to skyrocket when the new Vikings stadium, from which the new House of Balls site is visible, is finished. No worries, says Christian. "Once you get them across the threshold, you've got a chance to start conversations about everything from repurposing all the stuff that's around them to what they're doing with their lives," Christian said. "If they've got the balls." If they don't, he's got some to spare.