Milo + McLean
The team of Milo + McLean is Jennifer Eckstein and A. McLean Emenegger. They joined forces to form a dynamic, full-service art consultancy that would capitalize on their 20 years of art related professional experience.
Jennifer and McLean have professional and personal relationships with the Los Angeles art world players that include its artists, art dealers, and artsy trailblazers. As native Angelenos and veterans of the gallery world, each have insider knowledge of L.A.’s gallery scene.
Having collaborated on numerous projects, the two share aesthetic notions and maintain their individual tastes and sensibilities, offering clients a broader spectrum of options.
Jennifer and McLean have earned their stripes, working with notable artists and for impressive clients (whose names they’d like to drop but won’t) as well as tony designers and fellow art consultants.
Milo: Jennifer Eckstein
Born into a tinsel town television family, Jennifer Eckstein, after graduating from Otis College of Art and Design with a degree in fine art photography, worked as a free-lance photographer for the LA Weekly, AIDS Project Los Angeles, among others, as well as snapped headshots for up-and-coming actors. She later maneuvered into the film industry working in the props and set decorating departments.
With a desire to do more than rent vases for fake mantels, as well as fulfill a lifetime’s yearning to in live in a more filthy and dangerous place, in 1993 Jennifer moved to New York where she lived and worked for 12 years.
In New York, Jennifer was a photo editor for various fancy magazines including Vanity Fair, Discover, Self, and Life. The zenith and swansong of her photo editing career was at The New York Times, where she was the photo editor for the House and Home section.
Grateful for her years as a photo editor and the strong background in producing, researching, and editing it gave her, she nevertheless decided to leave the print world behind and return home to Los Angeles and pursue her love of fine art in other arenas.
(In the delirium of a misguided but earnest dream) Jennifer decided to open her own commercial art gallery Milo. Situated on the Miracle Mile, she kept the brick-and-mortar Milo open for two years, garnering many fans, collectors, and press, including reviews in the Los Angeles Times, Artweek, Artscene, Artforum.com, among others. Jennifer closed the gallery in 2008 to deal art privately. She has placed artwork in the homes of several prominent art collectors and a few major corporate collections.
Likes: Uncomplicated technology, creatures great and small, honesty, crunchy peanut butter
Dislikes: Entitlement, ball point pens, raw tomatoes, excess noise
Sign: Cancer
Personality type: INFJ
McLean: A. McLean Emenegger
Besides having a notoriously difficult to pronounce last name (m-n-egg-ur), McLean has been ensconced in the art world since 1996 after chucking her career as a cog in the entertainment industry where she was shamefully complicit in churning out infotainment.
Since her vocational reincarnation that began at the Santa Monica Museum of Art, McLean has worn myriad art chapeaus, acquiring a breadth of art world knowledge and connections.
A creative thinker and savvy producer, McLean has assisted in the creation and/or revitalization of several art organizations and projects. She helped launch Bandini Art Gallery in Culver City, and as its director curated many of its critically recognized exhibitions. As executive director of the Los Angeles Art Association/Gallery 825, McLean brought the organization unprecedented peer, public, and critical acclaim. She was also a key player in the editorial reinvigoration of THE Magazine Los Angeles, a monthly art publication focusing on the Los Angeles art scene.
Through her consulting firm, McLean Fine Art, McLean has placed artwork in numerous private collections, served as art advisor and curator to nonprofit groups, and has provided her press/media consultation services to commercial art galleries. Her independent curatorial projects have received reviews in the Los Angeles Times, Artweek, Artscene, among others.
As an independent writer, her art reviews and features have appeared in multiple publications. She is also on staff for the uber-hip cultural site flavorpill.com.
McLean graduated from Sarah Lawrence College, New York, some time ago.
Likes: India, swimming at the Pasadena Rose Bowl, condiments, integrity, the absurd
Dislikes: American Apparel ads, self-importance, corporate manipulation, jazz shoes
Sign: Virgo, Scorpio rising
Personality type: ENFJ/P