This month, we would like to highlight two major design events happening in the LA area: the Pasadena Showcase House of Design and the newly expanded LAlegends (previously LCDQ, now Design Los Angeles). Source Art will be participating and showcasing the enhancement of interior design through perfectly suited and significant art.
Design Los Angeles - LA Legends
May 5th - 8th, 2025
Starting with a launch party Monday night and continuing with a diverse series of discussions that provide new perspectives on design with the industry’s leading talent, Tuesday through Thursday, Design LA will also activate showrooms across the city through exclusive events.
Panel discussion at The Luxury Kitchen during LCDQ 2024, curation by Source Art.
Legends Window in collaboration with Marbé Design.
After 15 years as the La Cienega Design Quarter (LCDQ), Los Angeles’ renowned design district has embraced an ambitious transformation, rebranding as Design Los Angeles. This evolution reflects the city’s dynamic growth as a global hub for art, design, and creativity, expanding its reach to include showrooms, galleries, and studios across LA’s diverse neighborhoods. Design Los Angeles will produce Legends, marking its 15th year in 2025, taking place May 5-8, a 4-day celebration of Los Angeles’ creative spirit. This year, Design Los Angeles will partner with sponsors and brands to support rebuilding efforts for homes, businesses, and communities affected by the devastating wildfires. It will celebrate design’s ability to inspire and heal with a renewed focus on giving back to the people of Los Angeles.
Art Inspiring Design - Accessing the global art market for your projects
Tuesday May 6th, 10:00 AM-11:00 AM
Michael-Cleary, 8731 Melrose Ave., Los Angeles, CA 90069
Source Art’s MaryLinda Moss will present a panel discussion with eminent gallerists, LA Louver Director Elizabeth East, and Thomas Kelly, Director of Sean Kelly LA, in conversation with artists Brian Rochefort, Rebecca Campbell, and Fatemeh Burnes. They will illuminate the benefits of accessing the global art market through art professionals to elevate projects with significant artwork and provide an inside view of the relationships and practices that shape the art landscape.
Elizabeth East, Director L.A. Louver View of the gallery space and their current 50th Anniversary exhibition
Elizabeth East has been a director of L.A. Louver for over 25 years. Elizabeth received a Masters in Art History and Theory from Goldsmith’s University of London and was previously director at Hollis Taggart Galleries, New York and Washington, D.C.
L.A. Louver, located in Venice, CA, is one of the longest-established art galleries on the West Coast, founded in 1975 to contextualize southern California and international artists in a distinguished exhibition environment. In addition to contemporary artists, L.A. Louver represents a number of artist estates and for over two decades operated a program to showcase underrepresented L.A.-area artists, called "Rogue Wave."
Thomas Kelly, Director of Sean Kelly Gallery and their current solo exhibition with artist Zipora Fried
Thomas Kelly is a director and partner of Sean Kelly Gallery. He joined the gallery in New York in 2012, and moved to Los Angeles in 2022 to open Sean Kelly’s LA outpost. Since the gallery’s opening in LA, Thomas has helped introduce several gallery artists to a West Coast audience, exhibiting artists such as Julian Charrière, Jose Dávila, Shahzia Sikander, Janaina Tschäpe, and Wu Chi-Tsung.
Since its inception in 1991, Sean Kelly Gallery has been internationally regarded for its diverse, intellectually driven program and a highly regarded roster of artists. The gallery has garnered international attention for its high caliber exhibition program and collaboration with many of the most significant cultural institutions around the world. Over the course of more than thirty years, the Gallery has become a symbol for high quality, thought-provoking contemporary art.
Rebecca Campbell, artist, L.A. Louver
Born and raised in Utah, Rebecca Campbell received her MFA at UCLA, and continues to live and work in Los Angeles, making art in a variety of media including sculpture, installation, video and performance. Best known for her painting virtuosity, Campbell creates beguiling, surrealistic and thought provoking narrative compositions inspired by childhood memories, family, nature and our contemporary world. Campbell is represented by L.A. Louver.
Brian Rochefort, artist, Sean Kelly
Brian Rochefort is a Los Angeles based, mixed-media sculptor whose work expands upon more traditional techniques to produce objects which suggest otherworldly landscapes through their vibrant forms and textures. Rochefort’s abstract organic forms, rich in textural patterns and vibrant shifts in hues, challenge the technical confines of traditional ceramics. Throughout Rochefort’s oeuvre, each unique sculpture reflects a profound connection to the natural world. With a BFA from the Rhode Island School of Design, 2007 Rochefort’s work is represented by Sean Kelly Gallery and has been featured in numerous museum exhibitions.
Fatemeh Burnes, artist
Fatemeh Burnes is a visual artist, educator, curator and activist based in Los Angeles, received her BFA and MFA, and did additional graduate studies in art history and exhibition design. Burnes exhibits nationally and internationally and since 1992, she has curated over 100 exhibitions, authored numerous publications, and conducted art education documentaries, juried national exhibitions, and has given many talks and participated in several video documentaries. Her most current work has taken an autobiographical turn, addressing her experience as an immigrant and a woman.
Register here to attend LA Legends
_____________________________________________________________________________________60th Pasadena Showcase House of Design
April 20 - May 18, 2025
The Pasadena Showcase House of Design 2025
This year’s 60th Anniversary Pasadena Showcase House of Design will take place at Bauer Estate & Gardens, a 1928 Monterey Colonial Estate in Pasadena, where 30 designers will highlight the latest lifestyle trends in interior and landscape design.
Source Art has been contributing art to the Showcase House since 2013 and has always found it to be a lovely way to get artists’ work out into the public and seen in context with beautifully curated spaces.
Following just four months of renovation, over 30,000 guests will tour through the 30 interior and landscape design spaces, highlighting cutting-edge trends in high-style living. Guests can expect the famous Shops at Showcase, offering a variety of boutique vendors, as well as several on-site restaurants offering hot meals, grab & go snacks, as well as beer, wine, and cocktails.
Source Art collaborated with Rachel Duarte Design, curating exquisite art by artists Matthew Frederick, Wei Jason Situ, Natalya Sevastyanova, Margaret Lazzari, Kathryn Donatelli, Carol Steinberg, and Dana Bilello-Barrow for their stunning redo of the Kitchen Great Room.
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We also had the pleasure of providing beautifully suited artworks by Ray Roberts (courtesy of American Legacy Fine Arts) and Sharon Weaver for the inspired Grand Room by Peltier Interiors.
It's exciting to see the way those plein air works complement the overall curation of the space and interact with the surrounding gardens.
The Pasadena Showcase House of Design is the primary fundraiser for Pasadena Showcase House for the Arts, an all-volunteer nonprofit organization. During the 2023/24 program year, the organization contributed $1 million to local music and arts programs, and since 1948, has contributed more than $26 million.
Get tickets to attend the Showcase House
Public tours of the Showcase House will take place through May 18, 2025.
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