Tappan is pleased to present TRACE, a group exhibition. TRACE brings together works that capture the quiet layering of perception—marks laid over time, palettes tempered or emboldened, forms that seem to have shed earlier versions to reveal something truer, rarer, and more essential. A single mark can hold the weight of a season, or vanish almost as soon as it appears. In their layering, these works grapple with phenomena that can’t be measured but are nonetheless known: the pauses and accelerations, the strange reversals, the private clocks we each carry. They speak to the subtle transformations that unfold over years: the softening of certain edges, the sharpening of others, the gradual reordering of what we attend to and what we release. Each contour, surface, and shift in tone reads as a register of change—how experience redefines our appetite for uncertainty, reshapes our inner landscapes, and refines our sense of what endures. TRACE speaks to evolution—whether to realized truths, altered perspectives, or the slow, almost imperceptible accrual of understanding. Together, they form a record of continual becoming, each piece bearing the subtle evidence of where it has been and what it has absorbed along the way. Artists featured in the exhibition include: Luke Chiswell, Michael DeSutter, Sarana Haeata, Michael Harnish, Anatole Heger, Cortney Herron, Johanna Togada Hoffbeck, Virginie Hucher, Viktor Kobylianski, Bart O'Reilly, Arran Rahimian, Colt Seager, Irinka Talakhadze, and Orrin Whalen. Tappan will be hosting an opening event on Thursday, September 18th from 6:00PM - 9:00PM at the Tappan Gallery, 8200 Melrose Ave,, Los Angeles 90046. For additional information, please contact Liglin Lopez, Advisor, at liglin@thetappancollective.com For press inquiries and additional information, please contact Heather Bardocz, Director of Marketing & Communications at heather@thetappancollective.com TAPPAN 8200 Melrose Avenue, Los Angeles, California 90046 tappancollective.com Image: Rest Your Wings by Cortney Herron