Works on Paper, Inc. is a fine art gallery located in a former Los Angeles warehouse, specializing in drawings and photographs. Because of the nature and format of most works on paper, it was important to provide an exhibition space that was more intimate in scale than a typical "white cube" gallery and that would invite the viewer to focus on and examine a work in a way that is distinct from how one views larger-format paintings and sculpture.

The Gallery is given flexibility through the introduction of a range of specific elements, rather than by an attempt at architectural neutrality. A soffit is introduced above one wall of the gallery to create an intimate viewing surface that has a scale suitable for the display of smaller-format works. Opposite this "intimate" wall is a display wall allowed to remain full-height that can accommodate larger-format works. A circular skylight is placed on-axis with the translucent glass entry door to create a subtle sense of hierarchy and to provide a logical place to locate the occasional sculpture exhibit. Simultaneously, the angled soffit subtly expands the space at the rear of the gallery to give sculpture or a featured wall piece room to "breathe." Natural daylight enters through and is diffused by the conical skylight. This is balanced by diffused light from the exterior courtyard entering horizontally through the translucent glass window and entry door at the front of the space.

Color is strategically introduced to visually expand the perception of space and to lend a sense of warmth while maintaining the abstract nature of the design. This is achieved by assigning a medium warm gray to the ceiling and to each wall plane at the end of an axis, which causes these elements to visually recede.

The white wall plane and soffit are then left as the primary space-defining forms, and the yellow-beige plane as the secondary one. Light blue and red planes are discreetly introduced on non-display walls as accents. A dark plum-brown ground plane is intended to psychologically "anchor" the space and visually unify the individually-articulated wall planes.