Gilt & Shadow: The Art of Neil Lane
September 18 - December 5, 2026
Tuesday through Saturday from 12:00-5:00 PM
The PDC Design Gallery is pleased to announce Gilt and Shadow: The Art of Neil Lane, and exhibition of works by Neil Lane that will be on view from September 18- December 5, 2026. For more than half a century, Neil Lane has led a double life. To the world, he is one of the most celebrated jewelers of his generation—the cultivated eye behind red carpet icons--a name synonymous with glamor and design. But since childhood in the 1960s, Lane has also been quietly making art—a private practice unseen even by many who know him well, a practice that has run parallel to his glittering public career for decades.
This exhibition is his first public act of disclosure. Across five decades, Lane’s private art practice has taken many forms, evolving in material and approach even as its underlying preoccupations—memory, trauma, beauty, and redemption—have remained. Gilt and Shadow traces this arc from Lane’s childhood work to his recent mature oeuvre, revealing an artist who has been in continuous dialogue with his own history all along.
The PDC Design Gallery is a two-level museum-quality exhibition space with 2,780 square feet (258 square meters) located in the freestanding building in the Pacific Design Center Plaza, (PDC) West Hollywood that was formerly occupied by MOCA (Museum of Contemporary Art) for twenty years. Led by Milan-based curator Helen Varola, the gallery re-opened in March 2022 with its mission to explore design as an extension of artistic practice. Programming is devoted to contemporary art and design engaging internationally renowned artists, designers, curators, and leading academic institutions to draw upon the collective intelligence and creativity of design culture. The parking structure for the Pacific Design Center Gallery has entrances on both San Vicente and Melrose. PDC parking validation is offered to the press by calling one day in advance.
Open Tuesday through Saturday from 12:00-5:00 PM
The Pacific Design Center Design Gallery is an exhibition space located in the former MOCA building on the PDC campus. PDC Design Gallery is devoted to art and design, engaging internationally renowned artists, celebrated designers, noted curators, professional design organizations and leading academic institutions to draw upon the collective intelligence and creativity of California’s vast design culture, as well as international design invention and innovation.
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