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
Esqueleto-Oakland & Los Angeles, CA and New York City
Hugomento-San Francisco, CA
Edible Gardens LA-Los Angeles, CA
Themes+Projects Gallery-San Francisco, CA
Tribute-Chicago, IL
Lan Jaenicke, San Francisco, CA
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.