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Side Hustle is a multi-disciplinary platform founded by Kelly Wearstler to support boundary-pushing work across disciplines—from sculpture and design to sound, performance, and digital media. Rooted in collaboration, Side Hustle invites artists and designers to develop editioned, site-specific, and experimental works that expand the language of collectible design. It is not a traditional gallery, but an evolving initiative that blends curatorial rigor with creative risk.

The platform’s debut exhibition is on view by appointment through November 17, 2025, in a landmark Beverly Hills location temporarily reimagined as a private gallery space. Installed in direct conversation with the architecture, the presentation offers an immersive experience for collectors, curators, and creative peers. Guests encounter newly commissioned works that explore repetition, material memory, and transformation—presented in an intimate, highly considered environment that invites reflection and dialogue.

Side Hustle showcases original and editioned works across multiple creative disciplines:

• Contemporary Art
  Sculptural installations and mixed-media environments, including Nynke Koster’s ghostly rubber-cast ornamentation.
• Design Objects
  Functional sculpture and furniture by artists such as Sam Klemick, merging timber craft with textile logic.
• Sound & Performance
  Sonic compositions, live interventions, and movement-based works that animate the space across time.
• Video & Digital Art
  Time-based and interactive works exploring repetition, perception, and craft in the digital age.
  

Side Hustle is a curatorial platform created by Kelly Wearstler, a dynamic space for collaboration, discovery, and creative risk. Existing alongside her celebrated studio practice, it supports artists and designers working across sculpture, painting, craft, jewelry, performance, film, culinary culture, automotive design, and beyond. The inaugural exhibition debuts October 2025 at Wearstler’s Beverly Hills residence, with future editions planned for other cities and unexpected contexts.

Informed by Wearstler’s deep engagement with disciplines beyond interiors, Side Hustle builds on the collaborative ethos that has long defined her work. For years she has invited artists and designers into her projects, frequently in service to a client’s vision. Here that dynamic shifts: artists and designers take the lead, with Wearstler as a partner in process. Each endeavor begins in conversation and culminates in a new body of work, often experimental, editioned, interdisciplinary and highly collectible.

This expanded approach also carries into her treatment of historical material. In her design practice, Wearstler uses the term Collected Finds to describe objects she sources and repositions. Here, that framing shifts into a curatorial context: the pieces are placed alongside new commissions, tightening the distance between past and present in order to further amplify the exhibition’s themes.

Side Hustle reflects the layered, cross-disciplinary impulse that has always shaped Wearstler’s approach. It resists a fixed aesthetic or singular agenda, creating a welcoming site of exchange where creative practitioners come together to share ideas, cross boundaries, and reimagine how and where audiences encounter creative work

"The blurring of boundaries between art and design is one of the most exciting developments in contemporary visual culture. There are periods when art and design become separated, when design is considered less exalted than fine art. Then there are convergence periods, when art and design are in an even dialogue, with artists creating design objects and designers creating art.

We are now in a new convergence period with a dynamic interchange between art and design. It is no longer necessary to differentiate between some of the best art and design. Some of the most compelling objects are both.

Kelly Wearstler has been an innovator in fusing architecture, design, and fine art. Her projects unify the creative fields. Side Hustle is a visionary initiative to combine art, design, craft, technology, and performance . The initial group of creators represent some of the most exciting contributions to the contemporary convergence of art and design."

- Jeffrey Deitch

"Kelly Wearstler’s Side Hustle is breaking down barriers between art and design, creating a space where experimentation thrives. What excites me most is the way she collaborates with artists as true partners — not imposing outcomes, but sparking ideas that are both daring and collectible. With her eye for what’s ahead and her ability to shape how we experience culture, she is redefining the conversation. Side Hustle isn’t just an exhibition, it’s a living movement that is shifting how we think about creativity today.

Side Hustle: Kelly Wearstler’s bold remix of art, design, and culture.”

- Zelika Garcia