Since 2020, Sho Shibuya has maintained a daily painting practice that begins each morning at sunrise. Whether at home in New York or traveling abroad, the artist wakes up early to collect the day’s newspaper – often the New York Times or local equivalents – before covering its front page with a representation of the day’s weather. These paintings, created in response to the morning sky, are part of an ongoing visual diary, capturing the fleeting light and mood of each new day.
While many of the works depict glowing, expansive sunrises, Falling from the Sky turns its gaze toward a more contemplative subject: rain. For Shibuya, rainy days offer a particular kind of beauty; as raindrops roll down window panes, or are pushed along them by strong winds, they form delicate ever-changing patterns that give renewed meaning to ideas of ephemerality and idiosyncrasy. These patterns, recorded through photographs and transformed into painted compositions, are at once meditative and spontaneous.
