MOON DANCE
Two Person Exhibition: Geri Taper and Hyong Nam Ahn
November 3rd through May, 2026
For the Fall & Winter artwork rotation at KABR, Waterfall presents a two-person exhibition, tracing a dialogue between rhythm and stillness, energy and release through color, light, and movement. Geri Taper’s (1929-2004) paintings translate her deep connection to music into luminous fields of color, where form unfolds through motion and dissolves into harmony. Her compositions pulse with vitality yet resolve into calm, capturing the moment where expression becomes reflection.
Hyong Nam Ahn’s sculptures and mixed-media works continue this conversation through light and sound. His geometric forms breathe and vibrate, embodying the coexistence of structure and fluidity, matter and spirit. Drawing from the traditions of calligraphy and the kinetic art movement, his works evoke a meditative balance between the organic and the technological.
Together, their practices reveal art as a living rhythm—an ongoing process of tension and release, illumination and quiet. In their dialogue, light and color become language, carrying forward the shared pulse of human perception and transcendence.
Geri taper (1929-2004)
Geri Taper (1929–2004) moved to New York City in 1976 from Pittsburgh where she had established herself as a leading artist, her career culminating in a show of large-scale works at the inaugural exhibition of the Sarah Scaife Gallery at the Carnegie Museum of Art. Drawn to the vitality and promise of an emergent Soho, for the next twenty years Taper vigorously pursued a career that included individual and group exhibitions at the city’s foremost galleries (David McKee, A.M. Sachs, Theodore Haber), foundation grants for special projects (New York Foundation for the Arts), commissions for the interior and exterior renovation of commercial and industrial properties in Long Island City (Falchi, Redstone Rocket and Center Buildings), and the design of a multi-colored banner at Queensboro Plaza Station sponsored by the New York City Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA).
hyong nam ahn
Hyong Nam Ahn was born in 1955 in South Korea and immigrated to Seattle with his family during high school. Ahn is the son of one of the first Korean-American Pastor’s, Seong Jin Ahn, who also wrote poetry and children’s literature. He received both his BFA and MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 1980. Influenced by the Kinetic Art movement in the 1960s, his sculptures uniquely integrate light, sound and movement. For over four decades, Ahn has bridged the roles of artist, sculptor, and inventor–creating a diverse and innovative body of work. Today, Ahn is regarded as one of the most respected Korean-American sculptor in the US.