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Kayne Griffin Corcoran is a contemporary art gallery based in Los Angeles. The gallery represents and works with artists such as James Turrell, Mary Corse, David Lynch, Tomoharu Murakami, Peter Shire, Rosha Yaghmai, Jiro Takamatsu, Anthony Hernandez, Mika Tajima, Mary Obering, Liza Ryan, and Beverly Pepper.

History and Gallery Space
Created in 2011, the gallery was founded under the creative leadership of Maggie Kayne with the market guidance of Bill Griffin and James Corcoran. Prior to the merger, both Griffin and Corcoran owned their own separate galleries - Willliam Griffin Gallery and James Corcoran Gallery, respectively - both located in Santa Monica, California.

In 2013, the gallery relocated from Santa Monica to Mid-City West, opening a 15,000 square foot gallery on S La Brea Ave. In 2014, the building design by Standard Architecture was awarded the World Architecture News award for Adaptive Reuse. The 1940’s bow-string truss warehouse was transformed in to a gallery space, while the asphalt parking area was converted to a landscaped forecourt with grass, patios, and a steel trellis covered in creeping fig and flowering Bougainvillea. Inside, the building integrates major permanent installations by artist James Turrell, including skylights along the main gallery and a Skyspace in the conference room.

Exhibitions and Artists
Kayne Griffin Corcoran opened its new South La Brea gallery in May 2013 with a historical survey of James Turrell’s work related to Roden Crater, including drawings, photographs, models, as well as notes, tools, and architectural plans. The gallery has also featured exhibitions of Turrell’s Glass works, which are wall installations each unique in shape and size incorporating a distinct timed composition of color transitions. As art historian Suzanne Hudson notes in an Art Forum review, the works in his 2018 exhibition at the gallery cycle through “thousands of hues in subtle, hypnotic metamorphoses… cast[ing] shadows of chartreuse and orange, magenta and pale blue, biding their time.

The gallery’s first exhibition of works by Mary Corse included The Cold Room, an immersive environment in which a wireless light box hangs in near-freezing temperatures. After first conceiving of the piece in 1968, Corse struggled to the space and financing for the work, only fully realizing the project years later at Kayne Griffin Corcoran in 2017.

Italy-based American artist Beverly Pepper’s 2017 debut exhibition at Kayne Griffin Corcoran was also her first major solo exhibition in Los Angeles. The exhibition featured works spanning her nearly 60-year career, including large scale Cor-ten steel sculptural works, along with smaller sculptures made of stone and Carrara marble. As KCRW Art Talk critic Edward Goldman describes, the exhibition “was a rare combination of brutality and elegance, machismo and grace… [Pepper’s] sculptures, with their minimalistic geometric forms, have an unexpectedly theatrical effect.”