Kim Sungeun creates layered paintings that explore spirituality, memory, grief, and

renewal through color, symbolic imagery, and contemplative process. Beginning with

intuitive colored pencil drawings and gradually building translucent layers of acrylic paint,

her works develop through repetition, accumulation, and slow reflection.

Influenced by artists such as Wassily Kandinsky and Mark Rothko, Kim approaches

painting as a space where emotional and spiritual experience can be felt beyond language.

Light functions as a recurring presence, serving as both a visual element and a metaphor for

healing, endurance, and transformation.

Motifs including the tree of life, stars, clouds, fish, candlelight, pomegranates, and the

cross appear repeatedly across her work, forming a symbolic vocabulary shaped by faith,

personal memory, and lived experience. These images often emerge from periods of grief,

migration, and spiritual searching, particularly her experience of immigrant life in the United

States and the loss of her mother.

Rather than offering fixed narratives, Kim’s paintings create quiet spaces for

contemplation and emotional resonance. Through layered surfaces, luminous color, and

meditative gestures, her work invites viewers into moments of stillness, reflection, and

restoration.