SUNG EUN KIM “CROSSWALK”
JUNE 26 – JULY 13, 2025
Arcadia Contemporary is proud to present “Crosswalk,” the debut solo exhibition of South Korean-born artist Sung Eun Kim (b. 1985). Featuring thirteen new oil paintings, the exhibition captures fleeting moments of life in New York City: intersections, early morning streets, and stretches of the city rendered with a quiet intensity.
Drawn to the “light, space, and depth” of the urban landscape, Kim paints scenes not to document a place but to preserve a feeling. “It’s about my personal impression,” he explains, “and how my view reflects the place. It’s hard to spend time looking at something if there’s no connection to you.” While rooted in real locations, his cityscapes reflect moments of stillness, when the air is cool, the echoes are audible, and time seems briefly suspended.
Atmosphere and memory drive Kim’s approach. Each painting revisits a fleeting moment: how the light moved through a street, how the air felt, how sound lingered in a quiet space. These are reflections not only of place but of time, inviting viewers to pause and experience the city not through noise or motion but through presence. Even imagined sounds—rainfall, tires through puddles, the rhythm of footsteps—become part of the emotional texture he seeks to evoke. Sometimes Kim notes, he “sees the city in his paintings and sometimes he sees himself.”
“Crosswalk” opens June 26 and will be on view through July 13, 2025. Please join us for the opening reception on Thursday, June 26 from 6 to 8 PM. The artist will be in attendance and the show is open to the public.
“Old Police Headquarters” 2025 Oil on Linen
48 x 82 Inches (Unframed)
60 x 40 Inches (Unframed)
“Under The Bridge” 2025 Oil on Linen
“Deconstruction
2025 Oil on Linen
60 x 40 Inches (Unframed)
and Blue Lights”
36 x 24 Inches (Plus Frame)
“Cab and Bikes” 2025 Oil on Panel
36
“Haze” 2025 Oil on Panel
x 24 Inches (Plus Frame)
“Grey City” 2025 Oil on Panel
36 x 24 Inches (Plus Frame)
36
“Neons” 2025 Oil on panel
x 24 Inches (Plus Frame)
36 x 24 Inches (Plus Frame)
“Haze And Reflection” 2021 Oil on Panel
“Fading Light” 2024 Oil on Linen 24 x 24 Inches (Plus Frame)
“Atmospheric
Reverie” 2025 Oil on Panel 24 x 18 Inches (Plus Frame)
“Traffic Light” 2024 Oil on Panel
20 x 20 Inches (Plus Frame)
“Unloading of the Morning Light” 2025 Oil on Panel 20 x 20 Inches (Plus Frame)
2025 Oil on Panel 20 x 20 Inches (Plus Frame)
“Reader”
