ACE GALLERY is an art gallery

Art gallery

An art gallery or art museum is a building or space for the exhibition of art, usually visual art.Museums can be public or private, but what distinguishes a museum is the ownership of a collection...

 with two functioning gallery spaces in Los Angeles

Los Ángeles

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, California

California

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, United States

United States

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, with one located on the Miracle Mile

Miracle Mile, Los Angeles, California

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 section of Wilshire Boulevard

Wilshire Boulevard

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 and the other also on Wilshire Boulevard in Beverly Hills. It was founded in 1961 by the gallery's director, Douglas Christmas, and since then made a history of installing ambitious exhibitions, showing work from artists such as Richard Serra

Richard Serra

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, Donald Judd

Donald Judd

Donald Clarence Judd was an American artist associated with minimalism . In his work, Judd sought autonomy and clarity for the constructed object and the space created by it, ultimately achieving a rigorously democratic presentation without compositional hierarchy...

, Robert Irwin

Robert Irwin

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, James Rosenquist

James Rosenquist

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, Andy Warhol

Andy Warhol

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, Willem de Kooning

Willem de Kooning

Willem de Kooning was a Dutch American abstract expressionist artist who was born in Rotterdam, the Netherlands....

, and Carl Andre

Carl Andre

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. More recently, the gallery has exhibited work by the artists Tara Donovan

Tara Donovan

Tara Donovan is an American artist who lives and works in Brooklyn, New York. She is known for site-specific installation art that utilizes everyday materials whose form is in keeping with generative art.-Biography:...

, Tim Hawkinson

Tim Hawkinson

Tim Hawkinson is an artist from the United States of America who mostly works as a sculptor.- Education :Hawkinson was born in San Francisco, California, and graduated from San Jose State University; in 1989 he earned an MFA at the University of California, Los Angeles.- Work :Hawkinson′s work is...

, Justin Bower, Melanie Pullen

Melanie Pullen

Melanie Pullen is a photographer who currently lives and works in Los Angeles, CaliforniaPullen's work has been exhibited internationally, including solo-shows at Ace Gallery, Los Angeles and Ace Gallery, Beverly Hills; White Wall Gallery, Seoul; MiCamera, Milan...

, Ken Feingold, Martin Schoeller

Martin Schoeller

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, Dennis Hopper

Dennis Hopper

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, Robert Rauschenberg

Robert Rauschenberg

Robert Rauschenberg was an American artist who came to prominence in the 1950s transition from Abstract Expressionism to Pop Art. Rauschenberg is well-known for his "Combines" of the 1950s, in which non-traditional materials and objects were employed in innovative combinations...

, Robert Wilson

Robert Wilson (director)

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, John Millei, and Herb Alpert

Herb Alpert

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Represented Artists

• Herb Alpert
  Herb Alpert
  Herbert "Herb" Alpert is an American musician most associated with the group variously known as Herb Alpert & the Tijuana Brass, Herb Alpert's Tijuana Brass, or TJB. He is also a recording industry executive — he is the "A" of A&M Records...
  
  
• Justin Bower
• Tara Donovan
  Tara Donovan
  Tara Donovan is an American artist who lives and works in Brooklyn, New York. She is known for site-specific installation art that utilizes everyday materials whose form is in keeping with generative art.-Biography:...
  
  
• Ken Feingold
• Tim Hawkinson
  Tim Hawkinson
  Tim Hawkinson is an artist from the United States of America who mostly works as a sculptor.- Education :Hawkinson was born in San Francisco, California, and graduated from San Jose State University; in 1989 he earned an MFA at the University of California, Los Angeles.- Work :Hawkinson′s work is...
  
  
• Matt Hope
• Dennis Hopper
  Dennis Hopper
  Dennis Lee Hopper was an American actor, filmmaker and artist. As a young man, Hopper became interested in acting and eventually became a student of the Actors' Studio. He made his first television appearance in 1954 and appeared in two films featuring James Dean, Rebel Without a Cause and Giant...
  
  
• Melanie Pullen
  Melanie Pullen
  Melanie Pullen is a photographer who currently lives and works in Los Angeles, CaliforniaPullen's work has been exhibited internationally, including solo-shows at Ace Gallery, Los Angeles and Ace Gallery, Beverly Hills; White Wall Gallery, Seoul; MiCamera, Milan...
  
  
• Martin Schoeller
  Martin Schoeller
  Martin Schoeller is a New York based photographer whose style is distinguished by similar treatment of all subjects whetherthey are celebrities or unknown. His most recognizable work are his portraits, shot with similar lighting, backdrop, and tone...
  
  
• Robert Wilson
  Robert Wilson (director)
  Robert Wilson is an American avant-garde stage director and playwright who has been called "[America]'s — or even the world's — foremost vanguard 'theater artist'". Over the course of his wide-ranging career, he has also worked as a choreographer, performer, painter, sculptor, video...
  
  

External links

• ACE GALLERY official website
• The Ace is Wild by KRISTINE MCKENNA