Tappan, the LA-based contemporary art gallery known for launching and championing emerging artists, celebrated the opening of its debut NYC Gallery Exhibition, Proximities. Founder Chelsea Nassib held an intimate dinner, co-hosted by ShopMy, at Tappan’s beautiful new Soho Gallery at 100 Grand Street with media, art curators, designers, VIPs, and friends of the brand. Guests enjoyed bites and beverages from Avaline and Four Pillars Gin. Tappan partnered with event designer & chef Olivia Muniak, who curated and directed the meal and evening.
Notable attendees included Abbi Jacobson, Jodi Balfour, Laura Kim, Fernando Garcia, Janelle Lloyd, Immanuel Wilkins, Roze Traore, Colin King, along with artists James Perkins, Brianna Lance, Laura Burke, and Anatole Heger, all of whom have work in the show.
The month-long exhibition marks a major milestone for the brand as it brings its curated, accessible approach to contemporary art to New York for the first time. Proximities explores the layered nature of intimacy: its quiet rituals, charged silences, fleeting gestures, and lasting imprints through painting, sculpture, and photography.
The show brings together work from more than 30 artists, including Irinka Talakhadze, Tadahiro Gunji, Brianna Lance, Bryce Wymer, Gia Coppola, and Umar Rashid, many of whom live and work in New York. Some works reveal the closeness of personal relationships, the weight of unspoken words, or the quiet rituals of self-connection. Others reflect on the intimacy forged in one’s surroundings, how objects carry memory, and how spaces—both public and private—become vessels of attachment.
Images courtesy of DADA Goldberg
