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, i
