Ace Gallery, Art gallery in Miracle Mile, Los Angeles, US.

Ace Gallery is an art gallery in the Miracle Mile neighborhood of Los Angeles, occupying the second floor of the Wilshire Tower on Wilshire Boulevard. The space is divided into several large rooms designed to display contemporary art at a scale usually reserved for museums.

Douglas Chrismas opened his own frame shop and gallery in Vancouver in 1961, at age 17, and brought artists such as Robert Rauschenberg, Carl Andre and Sol LeWitt there. The gallery moved to Los Angeles in 1967, into the former Virginia Dwan Gallery space in Westwood, and a Venice location followed in 1972. ACE has occupied the second floor of the Wilshire Tower since 1986.

The gallery sits along Wilshire Boulevard, a street known in Los Angeles as a corridor of museums and art institutions. Walking through the second-floor space, visitors encounter large-scale contemporary works shown in rooms that feel closer to a museum than a commercial gallery.

The gallery is on the second floor of the Wilshire Tower in Miracle Mile, a neighborhood that also has several major museums nearby, so a visit can easily be combined with other stops on the same street. It is worth checking in advance whether a current exhibition is on, since the space may be between shows at certain times.

The Wilshire Tower, which houses the gallery, was built in 1929 in an Art Deco style, making it one of the older commercial buildings still in use along this stretch of Wilshire Boulevard. Showing large-scale contemporary art inside a nearly 100-year-old building creates a contrast that is rarely planned but hard to miss once you are inside.