Journal

In the Studio | Marleigh Culver

Welcome to the world of Marleigh Culver. This colorful studio reflects the artist’s refreshing body of work, exploring themes of beauty, femininity and abstract forms.   TAPPAN Tell us about t...

In the Studio | Catherine Lucky Chang

Welcome to the studio of Catherine Lucky Chang, a Taiwanese-American artist and yoga teacher based in Palo Alto, California. Chang’s studio practice is a meditative one—she finds inspiration in...

In the Studio | Cheryl Humphreys

Cheryl Humphreys challenges the confines of traditional printmaking. Here she shares the inspiration behind her unique processes.   TAPPAN Tell us about yourself and how you came to be an arti...

In the Studio | Alyssa Krause

Tappan is pleased to introduce Alyssa Krause, an artist and painter based in Milwaukee, WI. Krause takes familiar images and contorts them into colorful abstract works, creating a way of questi...

In the Studio | Jan Prengel

German photographer, Jan Prengel, approaches urban landscapes with an eye for minimalist abstraction. We sat down with him to learn more about his process and the how he came to be a photograph...

In the Studio | Satsuki Shibuya

This week we sat down with artist Satsuki Shibuya to talk about her new works launching on Tappan this week and her practice as it continues to develop. Simple in form, Satsuki's watercolors ar...

In the Studio | Ethan Caflisch

Ethan Caflisch, the London based artist whose practice encompasses painting, sculpture, photography, art direction and design recently joined us to participate in a residency with Tappan. It wa...

In the Studio | Alymamah Rashed

With features in Vogue and Harper’s Bazaar Arabia, Kuwaiti artist Alymamah Rashed is taking the art world by storm through her paintings that explore the relationship between body and spirit. L...

In the Studio | Umar Rashid

Umar Rashid resides Los Angeles, working in a studio in Lincoln Heights that he’s had for years. The walls are covered in multiple series of his work; the purposefully aged canvases and histori...

In the Studio | Jacques Brun

Jacques Brun is a Paris-based photographer originally from Switzerland. His work, which focuses around natural subjects and everyday objects, captures light and structure in its most romantic f...

In the Studio | Tadahiro Gunji

Japanese artist, Tadahiro Gunji, began his career after losing interest in the mundane office life he lived as a designer, finally moving his family to Brooklyn, NY in the hopes of fostering an...

In the Studio | Brian Merriam

Through exploration of the natural world, Brian Merriam’s photography explores a variety of themes including loss, longing and recovery. TAPPAN Describe your work in three words: BRIAN MERRIAM ‘...

In the Studio | Helen Rebekah Garber

Helen Rebekah Garber's work investigates the relationships between science, mythology and mysticism often drawing resources and inspiration from the connections, parallels and intersections bet...

In the Studio | The Heidies

Meet The Heidies. This Swiss bred, Parisian-based duo work seamlessly together to create a fantastical world through photography. Here we explore their joint artistic practice and learn more ab...

In the Studio | Katie Burdon

Katie Burdon is a London-based photographer who creates from a deeper sense of self. That self is fascinated by the the mystical, surreal and romantic moments of life. Her work contains movemen...

In the Studio | Neil Kryszak

As we welcome Neil Kryszak to the Tappan family, we spent some time exploring his artistic practice in his Los Angeles studio. The Brooklyn-born, LA-based photographer first drew us in with his...

In the Studio | Michael DeSutter

We sat down with mixed media artist Michael DeSutter to talk about his practice and learn a little more about his fascination with movement, both physically and metaphorically.   TAPPAN Tell u...

In the Studio | Crystal Gregory

Crystal Gregory's sculptures are quietly inquisitive, calling into question everyday associations. What is structural may, in fact, be pliable; buoyancy can be considered a strength. Weaving fa...

In the Studio | Alyssa Breid

Tampa-born artist Alyssa Breid is no stranger to fear. A classically-trained flutist who has performed at Carnegie Hall, Breid listened to the voice inside her urging her to expand her creative...

In the Studio | David Kitz

For David Kitz, art is an investigative pursuit, and his camera a tool to single out and re-present complex systems. His photographic imagery is a mixture of both staged and instantaneous momen...

In the Studio | Ali Beletic

Working in a variety of mediums, Ali Beletic is a conceptual artist whose diverse bodies of work reflect her connectedness to the earth and a desire to explore, simplify, and bring viewers clos...

In the Studio | Firoozeh Neman

Deeply inspired by poetry and mythology, Firoozeh Neman is an intuitive artist who allows her works to present themselves organically. Read on to her explore her studio.   TAPPAN Walk us throu...

Michael Wall | In the Studio

With a current focus on contemporary myth-making and folktales, Michael Wall’s latest works explore the relationship between storytelling and technology in today’s society. Through a fascination...

In the Studio I Carla Cascales Alimbau

Carla Cascales Alimbau is an artist living and working in Barcelona, Spain. Her work is based on finding beauty in imperfection and profundity in earthiness and of revering authenticity above al...