On Friday AN visited Michael Maltzan‘s new art space, Regen Projects, on Santa Monica Boulevard in Hollywood. The gallery, founded by Stuart Regen and Shaun Caley Regen, moved to its current gritty location from West Hollywood, and showcases artists like Doug Aitken, Catherine Opie, Andrea Zittel, Dan Graham, and Anish Kapoor. From the outside, the 20,000 square foot project resembles its own urbanscape, with stacked and staggered white boxes taking on the appearance of abstracted buildings in a skyline. Inside, light glows warmly into the main gallery through a system that Maltzan created in which the light from a long rooftop skylight is split via a metallic divider into two separate scrim-covered wells.

A smaller gallery, whose light source is far away, takes on the appearance of a James Turrell skyspace. The second floor deck provides the perfect spot for art and sculpture, not to mention parties and openings. During our tour, the space proved an ideal nest from which to view the unexpected flight of Space Shuttle Endeavor across the state. More on this and other new LA galleries coming up in AN‘s next West Coast print issue.