The curation takes place in Una Malan Showroom, step away from bustling La Cienega Blvd. down a brick pathway and enter a secluded courtyard setting the scene for Una Malan’s new showroom. Built in 1937, the John Elgin Woolf designed property exudes a relaxed charm with contemporary design elements. The interior space is illuminated by reverent natural sunlight to highlight an array of the finest craftsmanship in home furnishings, lighting, textiles and accessories. The layout of the showroom is far from ordinary and intentionally designed to make guests feel at home. Each space is enchantingly different from the next.
OM STUDIO
OM Studio was defined during the lockdown of 2020. Krislyn Komarov and James Benn, armed with good coffee, music and masks, met regularly (for creative therapy) during the initial year of the pandemic.
CHRIS MILLER
A California based artist that interprets forms of abstract sculpture and brutalism. He materializes his work using clay, porcelain and had mixed pigments
MICHAEL FLOMAN
Michael Flomen was born in Montreal in 1952. He began making photographs in the late sixties and has been showing his work on several continents since 1972. He served as a darkroom printer and collaborator for many artists, including for the Jacques Henri Lartigue travelling exhibition that toured Canada and the United States in the mid seventies. Details, Flomen’s first book of street photographs, which was inspired by Henri Cartier Bresson’s formalist approach to picture taking, was published in 1980.
PETER VARGA
Peter Varga is a fine artist and specialized craftsman, taking inspiration from everyday objects / happenings and translating them into his own language: plaster. The common goal of his work is to learn the material and its limitations, creating his own tools and methods for pushing the material to new applications.
Peter Combe
Peter Combe is consumed by the subtle magic that occurs when playing with light, color, and movement in my art-making. Whether punched or shredded, I appropriate household paint swatches and make mostly 3-dimensional artworks. These artworks transform and change subtly as the viewer shifts from his/her vantage point. There is a magic that occurs, a trick of the eye where color seems to occupy space - a void - at once ethereal, yet seen from another angle the whole appears as if a ghostly image, veiled in gossamer.
CHAD CHRISTIAN
Chad Christian, known colloquially as ‘Chadwick
Chad Christian’s early work takes a strike of influence from urban street art as well as the impressionists with patterns often wrapped around central facial figures. His recent work has focused on a unique approach that layers hand-sculpted micro-shreds. Evoking sculptural and painterly methods.