Mariko Makino Golden Hour Table Light Table Lamp, 2025

H 27 x W 14 x D 14 in

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 debuted in 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.