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Xiao Jiang, Silhouette by the Flowers, 2024. Courtesy of Karma Gallery LA

The painter Xiao Jiang has shown his quiet, reverent works that evoke the mood of Edward Hopper all over the world—from The Museum of Contemporary Art in Shanghai to London’s Olympia Grand Hall. But the Southern Chinese native, born 1977, is decamping to Los Angeles for his next exhibition, a show called By the Window at Karma gallery on Santa Monica Boulevard. Running until May 24, 2025, By the Window features a group of new pieces that bear Xiao’s signature shadowy take on fleeting moments from his life, mostly depicted against landscapes or interiors—always, with an incredible sense of stillness. Jiang was raised in the forested ridges of China’s Jinggang mountains, and those peaks can still be seen in many works, including some of the large-scale paintings on view at Karma. Now based in Shanghai, the artist tends to use burlap as a surface upon which to paint. “I paint in and paint out,” Xiao said in a press release, “continuously refining the image, gradually discovering the final result through the process.”