What Rain Tells You at Flowing Space Gallery

Emma June Jones, Past the Horizon, 2025 Oil on canvas, 28 x22 in

What Rain Tells You
October 22–29, 2025
Opening Reception: Saturday, October 25, 6–9 PM
Flowing Space Gallery, New York City

Curated by Mason Pan

Rain arrives quietly. It does not announce itself, yet it transforms everything it touches—light, sound, rhythm, memory. Flowing Space Gallery is proud to present What rain tells you, a group exhibition curated by Mason Pan, on view from October 22 to 29, 2025. Featuring works by Emma June Jones, Yen Yen, Qingru Yang, Barry Ekko, and Chen Daxi, the show traces the elusive presence of rain through painting, illustration, mixed media, and installation.

The exhibition begins with a question: What does the rain tell us when we take time to listen? Its voice moves between grief and renewal, solitude and connection. It speaks not in hours and minutes, but in what is lost, what returns, and what grows in the damp hush after the storm. What rain tells you explores how artists, like rain, work with time as a material—marking what dissolves, what remains, and what must transform.

A Curatorial Meditation on Time, Erosion, and Renewal

In curating this show, Mason Pan positions rain as both metaphor and method: a force that carves, nourishes, fades, and renews. “Each singular drop,” Pan writes, “marks a moment—one that can’t be held, only acknowledged or admired as it passes.” Meaning in this exhibition accumulates in the overlaps and absences, in what seeps from one piece into the next. By bringing together diverse artistic languages, What rain tells you reflects on impermanence and traces the subtle weather systems that shape both art and life.

Featured Artists

Emma June Jones
Based in New York City, Emma June Jones creates dreamlike oil paintings populated by distorted figures, symbolic objects, and compressed spaces. Her work draws from personal history, particularly the complexities of growing up with a twin in a home shaped by trauma. In this show, Jones’ richly textured canvases serve as interior weatherscapes, where obsession, memory, and emotional fragmentation pour through theatrical forms. The rain in her work is not literal—it is psychological, pressed into the folds of the body and psyche.

Yen Yen
A Taiwanese artist based in Brooklyn, Yen Yen works with painting and drawing to explore whimsy, memory, and cultural layering. Her soft textures and vibrant palettes reflect a sensitivity to daily rituals and shared experiences. Her featured piece evokes the rhythm of rainy days not as melancholic, but as portals into small, luminous intimacies—umbrellas drifting past windows, childhoods lit by afternoon storms. Rain becomes a connective thread, linking personal mythologies with urban environments.

Qingru Yang
With a background in narrative illustration, Qingru Yang (杨清如) combines bold colors with risograph-inspired textures to portray fleeting yet deeply human moments. Her works in What rain tells you highlight how rain alters communal space: it blurs motion, reshapes encounters, and lends tenderness to the ordinary. Inspired by everyday life and people around her, Yang captures how emotions surface and dissolve in the subtle friction between individuals and their environments.

Barry Ekko (Gu Hexiang)
An illustrator and designer from Vancouver, Barry Ekko employs geometric forms, retro-futurist aesthetics, and luminous contrasts to craft poetic urban dreamscapes. Currently the art director for the Vancouver Opera House, Ekko’s works in this exhibition explore how artificial light cuts through rainfall—reflections splintered across glass, neon filtered through mist. His vision of rain is both futuristic and nostalgic: a landscape where clarity and mystery shimmer side by side.

Chen Daxi
A young painter from China’s Guangdong Province, Chen Daxi studied oil painting at CAFA and furthered his training at the Nantes School of Fine Arts in France. His darkly atmospheric paintings titled Rain (2024) feature the words “November rain” submerged beneath layers of color and texture, echoing rain’s capacity to obscure and reveal. The canvases suggest time sedimented through pigment, where memory and material coalesce in a quiet, haunting presence.

About the Curator

Mason Pan (潘晟熙) is an independent curator working between Beijing and New York, currently studying at the University of Southern California. His curatorial projects focus on the intersection of public art, cross-cultural exchange, and community engagement. With exhibitions like Storytellers and mural restoration work in New York’s Chinatown and Brooklyn, Pan investigates how art circulates in the digital age and how it might build bridges across linguistic and cultural divides.

With What rain tells you, Pan offers a poetic reflection on time, impermanence, and the slow, accumulative gestures that art and weather share. He invites viewers not to rush through, but to pause—to let the works seep in like rain.

Exhibition Details

What Rain Tells You
October 22–29, 2025
Opening Reception: Saturday, October 25, 6–9 PM
Location: Flowing Space Gallery, 16 Clinton St., New York, NY 10002
Free and open to the public

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