Tappan presents TRACE, a group exhibition exploring the layered nature of perception and change. The works on view capture how time, memory, and transformation are inscribed through marks, tones, and forms. A single gesture may hold the weight of a season, or fade as quickly as it appears. Through these subtle accumulations, the pieces address phenomena beyond measurement—shifts in pace, reversals, and the private rhythms each of us carries.
The exhibition highlights how surfaces and contours register transformation, revealing how experience reshapes our tolerance for uncertainty, refines our inner landscapes, and reorients what we choose to hold or release. TRACE ultimately considers evolution—toward deeper truths, altered perspectives, or the slow, imperceptible accrual of understanding. Each work becomes a record of continual becoming, bearing traces of where it has been and what it has absorbed.
Featuring artists 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, TRACE offers a meditation on perception’s quiet but enduring transformations.