On the July 4 Times he painted a David Hammons-style African American Flag. On July 2 he showed two days’ Sunrise/Sunset from a small window, paintings on square acrylic sheets in which two inverted gradients are superimposed on each other. On July 1 he released a video and gallery of the 30 NYT sunrises he painted in June. On June 28 he painted six rainbow flag-colored monochromes on inside pages of the Times for Gay Pride. On June 7 he painted the sunrise on plywood barriers that had been erected in SoHo after police brutality-related violence and looting. Sunrise from a small window, June 2, 2020, replaced by a black monochrome field to show support for Black Lives Matter protests, image: June 2 he replaced the sunrise with a black monochrome field in support of the Black Lives Matter movement. images: May 24, Shibuya’s sunrise filled the entire front page of the Times, just like the names of 100,000 people who’d died from COVID-19. Sunrise from a small window, May 24, 2020, and the front page of the NY Times from that day, as COVID-19 deaths approached the first 100,000. On April 27, he taped off and painted the sunrise directly onto the front page of the print edition of that day’s New York Times. He cut portrait-shaped rectangles and applied them to examples of his print and graphic design work. By late April he was translating these photographs into gradient paintings. I could hear the birds chirping energetically and sound of wind in the trees, and I looked up and saw the bright sky, beautiful as ever despite the changed world beneath it.” –Sho Shibuya, via Spoon & Tamago April 27 sunrise process shot, via Shibuya began photographing the sunrise during the pandemic lockdown in New York City. Sunrise from a small window, via realized that from the small windows of my studio, I could not hear the sounds of honking cars or people shouting.
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