Journal

Mariana Velasquez | Guest Curator

Mariana Velasquez is a Colombian and NY based chef, food stylist, tastemaker, and cookbook author with more than two decades amongst New York’s most celebrated culinary and creative circles and...

In the Studio | Jaimie Milner

Jaimie Milner is a photographer based in Los Angeles who brings contemporary black life into focus by photographing men unguarded in moments of their life. Built on the want to create a change ...

How to Collect Art

#1 Art is Personal As the saying goes, “Buy with your eyes, not with your ears.” When you start looking for works, trust what you’re drawn to most. Don’t buy it because you think you should. Ev...

Eva Chen | Collector Profile

As the Director of Fashion and Shopping Partnerships at Instagram and the author of several empowering children’s books, it’s clear that Eva Chen has a stellar sense of style and optimistic poin...

In the Studio | Mike McMullen

Artist Mike McMullen asked to approach his studio visit in a new way. Below you will find an interview by his wife, fellow Tappan Artist Cheryl Humphreys, where the two discuss creating, being ...

In the Studio | Laura Burke

Laura Burke is a Brooklyn based artist focused around drawing who grew up in Portland, Oregon. Her surreal still-lifes come together through distant memories and references to her fascination w...

In the Studio | Lisa Dengler

From her studio in Mexico City, multidisciplinary artist Lisa Dengler looks at creation as meditation and utilizes her background in design and architecture to create works that explore her exp...

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...

Jenni Kayne | Collector Profile

Jenni Kayne is the Founder of a thriving lifestyle brand and an avid art collector based in Los Angeles. Her work has captured a West Coast sensibility of comfort and ease which permeates thr...

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...

Adi Goodrich | Guest Curator

Adi Goodrich is a Los Angeles-based spatial designer, specializing in commercial interiors, large-scale set design, site-specific art installations, and furniture design. For the last three dec...

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...

Alexander May | Guest Curator

Alexander May is the Creative Director and Founder of SIZED, a multidisciplinary creative studio conducting forward-thinking projects through the lens of art and design.Prior to living and worki...

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...

Jihan Zencirli | Collector Profile

Weave your way up the narrow roads of Laurel Canyon to find yourself in the light-filled home of artist Jihan Zencirli, previously known as GERONIMO. Most well-known for her playful balloon an...