Exhibition 2016-Current

2023 Artist in residence OM Studio (Krislyn Komarov + James Benn) at Vioage

2022 Duo Exhibition as OM Studio (Krislyn Komarov+James Benn) with Guadalupe Quesada, Art Bug Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

2019 Group Exhibition, The Why, Gulla Jonsdottir Atelier, Los Angeles, CA

2018 Group Exhibition, Brick Grit, Bestor Architecture, Los Angeles, CA

2016 Solo Exhibition, Voiage, Los Angeles, CA

Two art projects, Artbug, located at the heart of Art District, Los Angeles and​ El Salón Arte from Mexico City, collaborate to present an international duo show "Elemental Phenomena: The Encounter of Two Worlds". This exhibition hosts the sculptor installation of Organized Matter Studio (OM) by Krislyn Komarov and James Benn from the United States, and the Mexican artist Guadalupe Quesada with the curatory of Xaus Kahal.

Through the systemic environment of this dual installation made of light and contrast, sound and texture, envisioning fantastic elements and entities from an outer world, the artists invite the viewer to experience, through the senses, this mystical landscape with the suggestion of expanding awareness and imagination into an open-ended interpretation of the natural world. -Xaus Kahal

At the heart of The Why, four artists pose the question, “Why do we do what we do, and what does it mean?” The responses to that prompt are as varied and personal as one might suspect, but Tahmineh Javanbakht, Krislyn Komarov, Patricia Von Ah and Liz Young demonstrate the profound universal nature of the inquiry. Each seek answers to these questions through a range of media that complements their visions. Delving into their life experiences and private motivations, The Why explores concerns that may be specific and biographical in origin, but speak to all of us.

Brick Grit 2018 presented at Bestor Architecture

The title makes reference to a commonality of values and concerns that emerged as the conversation among the artists unfolded and their independent artistic objectives fused into a series of manifestos that became one chain manifesto.  Three of the artists here maintain high-profile and internationally recognized design practices.  They have a deep-seated practical understanding and personal investment in defining a place and engaging and articulating the space around it.  

BRICK represents the fundamental, foundational building element, the elemental mark—yet also the unit to which another may bond, extend, inscribe, connect, and platform.  Also, simple materiality:  a respect for the physical world and its materials is a fundamental; an acknowledgment and appreciation of limits.  It also registers strength, endurance, implacability.  The artists and designers here understand what it means to create a safe place for themselves, for their ideas, and the connections they may make within the compass of those spaces—whether in a design and architectural context or the materials, imagery and ideas of art.  

If ‘Brick’ is the foundational mark, point of origin, the building block, the germinal idea, the inevitable complement must be the point of contact, the attachment, the bond—and extension.  GRIT is the determinative function that must inevitably accompany such a definition and whatever it might join or engage in its orbit.  Not the ‘clench’ or a clamp we might viscerally reenact, but the actual determination, persistence and perseverance to see the vision or idea through to its furthest limits.