Thursday, February 27, 2025
5:30–6 PM members-only reception; 6 PM general reception; 6:30 PM lecture

Please join us for an artist talk with Julian Tan. He will share a special presentation on his Athenaeum show, End Trances, and how it connects to his career and process. A members-only reception will take place from 5:30–6:00 p.m. The reception for all ticketholders will take place at 6:00 p.m., followed by a lecture at 6:30 p.m.

January 18–April 19, 2025

Gallery Walk-through: Saturday, January 18, 11 AM

Julian Tan will give a free gallery walk-through of his Athenaeum exhibition, End Trances.

January 18–April 19, 2025

Opening Reception: Friday, January 17, 5:30–7:30 PM

For his exhibition End Trances, Los Angeles–based painter Julian Tan has created a body of work centered on a blinding, mysterious light in the sky and humans’ moments of wonder, panic, and solace as they witness it. In creating these paintings, Tan was thinking about recent trends including the use of AI in art making, the vastness of knowledge at our fingertips in a world dominated by instant information, public fascination with unidentified aerial phenomena, and a pervasive sense of being at the precipice of something—whether the end of the world or a cultural shift we have yet to understand as a society. The unknown light offers us all a glimpse of our own humanity, a sublime focal point in each work that remains open to interpretation.