The courtyard features an olive grove and a fountain.
“There was an existing brick building and a little annex structure, but this turned into a pretty big intervention,” Tolkin says. “We redid the volumes, cleaned things up, and built the connection, which is now the conference room.”
The results are spacious and flooded with natural light, thanks to the northern exposure and the existing skylights.
The main space has been cheekily dubbed the “Great Hall” because it reminds Gaines of a grand space in a royal palace. The Drawing Room is a closed-off “clean” space for the production of works on paper, which need to be isolated due to the delicate materials and precise nature of the production. Other areas include a conference room, a gallery, offices, and, upstairs, a separate space for Gaines, something he hasn’t had since the early days of his career.
A painting by Caroline Kent hangs in the conference room.
Choosing color palettes for tree paintings.
The gallery in particular has quickly become integral to his practice. “I can now hang my work in a clear space and sit and live with the pieces,” the artist explains. “My work is system-based, and I don’t live with my works while they are being produced. One only sees fragments until a certain point when it all comes together. So I needed a place where I could spend a period of time living with the work unfettered.”
The artist’s archives can now be housed on-site as well. “Before, I didn’t know where anything was!” Gaines shares with a smile. “There is now access because everything is organized. The team at Hauser & Wirth looks at it as an archaeological find, like discovering a lost civilization!”
The finishing touch just went in earlier this year—a grove of olive trees and a fountain in the interior courtyard. “I wanted to simulate a Mediterranean garden,” says Gaines, who called in landscape designer Wade Graham to help bring that vision to fruition. Graham notes that “since it’s in the historical bed of the L.A. River and former area of vineyards and orchards, there was excellent soil underneath the concrete for the olive trees to thrive.” In this new environment, they—and the artist—certainly have.
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