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Len Carella

About

Len Carella started working in ceramics in 1998 midway through a 20 year career as a designer of footwear and leather goods.


He currently works full-time from his San Francisco studio creating  installation art & sculpture in stoneware, porcelain, leather.  His small batch functional ware is hand  made  in stoneware & porcelain for home and restaurant use.


His work is currently available at...


Spartan Shop-Portland, OR

www.spartan-shop.com


Esqueleto-Oakland & Los Angeles, CA and New York City

www.shopesqueleto.com


Hugomento-San Francisco, CA

www.hugomento.com  


Edible Gardens LA-Los Angeles, CA

www.ediblegardensla.com


Themes+Projects Gallery-San Francisco, CA

www.themesandprojects.com


Tribute-Chicago, IL

www.tributechicago.store


Lan Jaenicke, San Francisco, CA

www.lanjaenicke.com



He has created custom serve-ware pieces for chef Melissa Perello's three award winning restaurants, Francis & Octavia-San Francisco and 

M. Georgina-Los Angeles.


Timeline:


-January  2025:  Len  was  invited to be a featured artist  at  ‘FOGMRKT’  during  the  FOG  Fair  2025  where a  collection  of his  sculptures  and  functional work was  featured.


-September-October 2024:  Len  was  invited to  participate in  ‘Works  In  Progress  II‘   which  brings  together  the  contemporary  craft  &  design  community in  the  San  Francisco Bay  Area.  He  was  one  of  fourteen artists/designers  who  were  paired  together to  interpret a  screen.  Len  worked  in  collaboration with Lundberg Design.


-March-April,  2023:  A selection of his  sculptures  were  featured  in  the  show,  ‘Golden  State  of  Mind’,  alongside  fellow  California  artists  at  Hugomento,  San  Francisco,  CA.


-December 2021-January 2022: select works included in, 'The Five Year Journey', a group show at Hugomento, San Francisco, CA.


-November-December 2021: He  participated in the group show, 'Rejoining:Urushi, Kintsugi and Beyond' at Hugomento, San Francisco, CA.


-June-October 2019: sculpture and functional ware show, John K Anderson DesignStudio, San Francisco, CA.


-mid 2019:  Chef Melissa Perello of Francis and Octavia restaurants in SF selected him to create custom serve-ware pieces for her new downtown Los Angeles restaurant, 'M. Georgina'.


-February-March 2019:  He mounts his show, 'Shadows+Light' of sculptural installations at Esqueleto in Oakland CA.


-February 2-March 31, 2018: A  collection of his functional ware was featured at Hugomento Gallery in San Francisco’s Dogpatch neighborhood.


-January 2018:  He was again selected as a featured artist in 21Pop at Fog Art & Design Fair in SF.


-Aug. 4-Sept. 30, 2017: A large body of his sculpture was exhibited under the show title, ‘Line + Form’, at Themes & Projects Gallery at The Minnesota Street Projects in SF.


-April-May 2016: He was a selected artist to participate in the Goop Market in SF.


-August, 2015:  He was invited to be featured in the ‘Hip-Pop’ pop-up shop at the American Craft Council Show in San Francisco, where he won the Emerging Artist Award.


-2014:  He created a variety of serveware pieces for San Francisco resturant, ‘Octavia’.


-2014:  One of his pieces was selected as ‘directors choice’ for the exhibit, ‘Southern Migration’ at AMOCA, The American Museum of Ceramic Art in Southern California.


-July 2014:  He began working with Waterworks, designing and producing best selling collections for their kitchen & bath stores through September 2016.


-January  2014:  He was selected to participate in the  Fog Art & Design Fair/21Pop, in SF.


-February 2004:  He was part of a group show at the Williamsburg Art & Historical Center in Brooklyn, NY.



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