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Julia Chiang: Run Like the Rain

Julia Chiang: Run Like the Rain

July 24-September 3, 2025

Jessica Silverman is pleased to present “Run Like the Rain,” a new body of work by artist Julia Chiang, on view July 24 through August 29, 2025. The exhibition brings together a trio of voluptuous ceramic sculptures and eight new paintings that range in scale from intimate to immersive. In both mediums, Chiang explores the tension between structure and fluidity. Her distinct forms and mark-making echo natural phenomena, often evoking rain storms, oceans, and fog as metaphors for emotional landscapes.

Shaped as much by physical process as intuition, works in the exhibition investigate the rhythms of the body and the porous boundary between emotional interiority and the surrounding world. Curvaceous, corporeal ceramic vessels express both containment andrelease. In paintings, Chiang balances intention and surrender through spontaneous spills and meticulous dashes that recall the pulsating tessellations in Bridget Riley’s Cataract series with the tranquil calm of Vija Celmins’ oceans.

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SELECTED WORKS
ARTIST BIO
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SELECTED WORKS

Julia Chiang
Feeling Through Fog, 2025
Acrylic on wood panel
48 x 48 inches / 121.9 x 121.9 cm
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Julia Chiang, Feeling Through Fog
Julia Chiang
Right Before, 2025
Acrylic on wood panel
48 x 48 inches / 121.9 x 121.9 cm
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Julia Chiang, Right Before
Julia Chiang
Between Breaths, 2025
Acrylic on wood panel
48 x 48 inches / 121.9 x 121.9 cm
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Julia Chiang, Between Breaths
Julia Chiang
Feeling Through Fog, 2025
Acrylic on wood panel
48 x 48 inches / 121.9 x 121.9 cm
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Julia Chiang, Feeling Through Fog
Julia Chiang
Right Before, 2025
Acrylic on wood panel
48 x 48 inches / 121.9 x 121.9 cm
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Julia Chiang, Right Before
Julia Chiang
Between Breaths, 2025
Acrylic on wood panel
48 x 48 inches / 121.9 x 121.9 cm
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Julia Chiang, Between Breaths
In Between Breaths (2025) Chiang reflects on internal and atmospheric movement. Two trunk-like forms extend vertically like arteries or tree limbs against a field of green, while her signature marks drift across shifting terrains that evoke both the body and the natural world. Barely Holding (2025) conjures a psychedelic coastline rendered in deep velvety purple and a cloudy haze of pink and blue. A delicate grid of translucent orange and green marks swim across the composition like a school of fish, creating a path through the surrounding turbulence.
Julia Chiang
Run Like the Rain, 2025
Acrylic on wood panel
66 x 48 inches / 167.6 x 121.9 cm
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Julia Chiang, Run Like the Rain
In the show's titular painting, Run Like the Rain (2025), jewel-tones settle into organic pools of color. Chiang marks the edges of her paint pour with vibrant orange dots and neatly scatters angular shapes from a central point on the painting, mapping emotion and memory across a visual terrain. The density of her marked surfaces gesture to Alma Thomas’s mosaic-like patterns.
Julia Chiang
Staring and Sweating, 2025
Acrylic on wood panel
40 x 30 inches / 101.6 x 76.2 cm
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Julia Chiang, Staring and Sweating
Julia Chiang
Barely Holding, 2025
Acrylic on wood panel
40 x 30 inches / 101.6 x 76.2 cm
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Julia Chiang, Barely Holding
Julia Chiang
Icy Wave, 2025
Acrylic on linen
20 x 16 inches / 50.8 x 40.6 cm
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Julia Chiang, Icy Wave
Julia Chiang
So Salty, 2025
Acrylic on linen
20 x 16 inches / 50.8 x 40.6 cm
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Julia Chiang, So Salty
Three exquisitely glazed ceramics reveal the artist’s background in ceramics, and deep sensitivity to material. Slippery (2025), a large oblong vessel, evokes the ridge of a mountain range or the spine of a body in plank pose. Glazed in marine blue and violet, its sloping surface erupts with a dotted texture catalyzed by elemental changes within the kiln. Biomorphic and bulbous, other works including Showy and Shiny (both 2025) billow and yield. Their layered blue and green glazes mirror the palette of the artist’s paintings.
Julia Chiang
Showy, 2025
Glazed low fire ceramic
14 1/2 x 13 1/2 x 11 inches / 36.8 x 34.3 x 27.9 cm
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Julia Chiang, Showy
Julia Chiang
Slippery, 2025
Glazed low fire ceramic
10 1/2 x 17 1/2 x 12 inches / 26.7 x 44.5 x 30.5 cm
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Julia Chiang, Slippery
Julia Chiang
Shiny, 2025
Glazed low fire ceramic
14 1/2 x 14 1/2 x 14 inches / 36.8 x 36.8 x 35.6 cm
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Julia Chiang, Shiny
Julia Chiang
Showy, 2025
Glazed low fire ceramic
14 1/2 x 13 1/2 x 11 inches / 36.8 x 34.3 x 27.9 cm
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Julia Chiang, Showy
Julia Chiang
Slippery, 2025
Glazed low fire ceramic
10 1/2 x 17 1/2 x 12 inches / 26.7 x 44.5 x 30.5 cm
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Julia Chiang, Slippery
Julia Chiang
Shiny, 2025
Glazed low fire ceramic
14 1/2 x 14 1/2 x 14 inches / 36.8 x 36.8 x 35.6 cm
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Julia Chiang, Shiny
In a time of collective uncertainty and personal recalibration, “Run Like the Rain” offers a poignant reflection on how our bodies and nature hold, release, and adapt. In both clay and painting, Chiang channels the emotional undercurrents of contemporary life through forms that ebb and swell, making visible the invisible forces that shape us.

ARTIST BIO

Julia Chiang (Atlantic City, NJ, b. 1978) lives and works in Brooklyn, NY and studied Studio Art and Art History at New York University. Chiang has enjoyed solo exhibitions at Parrish Art Museum, Water Mill, NY; Nanzuka Underground, Tokyo; Nicola Vassell Gallery, New York; The Modern Institute, Glasgow, and The Journal Gallery, New York. In 2022, Chiang was commissioned by Rockaway Hotel and Spa for the “Rockaway Mural” in Queens, NY. In 2023, she created a mural with RxART for the new SUNY Upstate Nappi Wellness Institute in Syracuse, NY. She has been an artist-in-residence at Anderson Ranch Arts Center in Snowmass Village, Colorado, The CreativeCentre at Mount Sinai Hospital, Henry Street Settlement in New York, HAP Clay Studios in Beijing, and Vermont Studio Center in Johnson, Vermont. Chiang is represented by The Modern Institute, Nicola Vassell Gallery and Nanzuka.

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