“I BELIEVE CONTINUITY MATTERS, AND THE MEANING OF THE PAINTINGS RELIES ON THAT CONTINUITY AND SEEING THE WORKS TOGETHER OVER TIME.”
t all began in the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020 when Sho Shibuya began to paint contemplative gradient colour fields representing the morning sky over the front page news of The New York Times as a remedy against anxiety-filled days and to record the passage of time. Although New York City was in lockdown, lives disrupted and the streets deserted, time didn’t stand still but pursued its relentless cyclical course with day turning into night, as if nothing had changed. Viewing the outside world through the little window of his Brooklyn
