Erin Wright: Memnosphere

Three life-scale kitchens in white oak for a gallery exhibition, taken from the artist's drawings to on-site installation.

Memory Model 03: tall white oak cabinets, a coral desk counter and yellow tile on a tiled platform — Memory Model 03. Photo: Erin Wright

Memory Model 01: wall cabinets over red tile, an upholstered bench and an ochre floor — Memory Model 01. Photo: Erin Wright

Memory Model 02: tall oak cabinets with a green bench nook behind a white island — Memory Model 02. Photo: Erin Wright

Artist: Erin Wright
Gallery: Anat Ebgi, Los Angeles
Exhibition: Sept 19 – Dec 19, 2026
Project value: Approx. $35,000
Scope: Shop drawings, millwork fabrication, finishing, on-site framing, platforms and installation
Materials: White oak plywood and solid white oak, Baltic birch interiors, upholstered bench seats

The brief

Erin Wright is a painter and a professor of architecture at Woodbury University. For Memnosphere, her second solo show with Anat Ebgi, she designed three kitchenettes, each with a painting set into it. The gallery calls them architectural specs rather than working kitchens: the cupboards don't open, the sinks aren't plumbed, and the upholstered banquettes double as gallery seating.

What we did

We turned Erin's design set into 27 sheets of shop drawings, nine for each Memory Model. The visible casework is white oak plywood with mitered corners. The doors are edge-banded overlay fronts fixed from inside, so they read as cabinetry without opening. The carcasses are Baltic birch, the wall units hang on French cleats, and the trim is solid white oak.

In the gallery, we framed each room in 2x4s, built the raised plywood platforms, hung drywall and installed the millwork.