The building was constructed during the aeronautics boom in the 1950s as a manufacturing plant for Douglas Aircraft and has 25-foot (7.6 m) ceilings and four distinct galleries.
The gallery had helped realize public art projects with artists such as James Turrell,[3] Ai Weiwei, and Richard Long.
[4] In addition, the gallery had both independently produced and directly supported the publication of numerous artist book projects, catalogs, and monographs.
It had presented group exhibitions such as Early California Minimalism, a survey of significant early works by Robert Irwin, John McCracken, and Craig Kauffman;[6] and Wall Installations, with works by Maya Lin, James Turrell, Richard Long, Robert Therrien, Teresita Fernández, Karin Sander, Peter Wegner, and Kira Lynn Harris.
It has also presented projects of work by Richard Tuttle, Ana Mendieta, Donald Judd and Josef Albers.