Leave It Ajar

THE BLANC is pleased to present Leave It Ajar — a duo exhibition by Kyung Kim and Ruoxin Sun, curated by Xiaojing Zhu.

Spanning paintings, installations, and artist zines, the show drifts between dreams and memories, tracing the delicate space where reality blurs into reverie. Kim’s soft, contemplative paintings embrace viewers in shifting hues and fleeting impressions, while Sun’s poetic installations reframe light, objects, and moments into surreal, whimsical transformations.

Together, they explore the unstable yet grounded nature of dreams — a quiet, playful space left ajar, inviting you to linger at the edge of consciousness.

On View: Aug 15 – Aug 29, 2025

Gallery Hours: Wed - Sat, 11AM-5PM

Opening Reception: Aug 15, 6–8PM

Location: THE BLANC, 15 East 40th Street, BLANC01, New York, NY 10016

Directions (BLANC01):

The entrance is located to the right of the main lobby doors when facing the building.

Artist

Kyung Kim is a South Korean-born painter currently based in New York. Kyung translates her sensory memories into paintings by capturing the invisible sensitivities of sound, temperature, and time she encountered in the natural landscapes of Korea. Kyung has exhibited her work in South Korea, Chicago, and New York. In 2022, her work was featured in a Club Monaco collection in Korea, and in 2024, she published her first art book, The Waxing Moon. Kyung holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC) and received her Master of Fine Arts (MFA) at Pratt Institute in 2024.

Ruoxin (Rosina) Sun is a Chinese-born artist based in Brooklyn, NY. Her practice moves between object-making, writing, and digital processes, circling around unstable meanings, broken systems, and unresolved narratives. Often working with translation across media, languages, or memories, she transforms personal and cultural logic into physical forms. Through repetition and fragmentation, she examines how systems behave when they no longer hold. Sun received her BFA from the School of Visual Arts in 2022 and her MFA from New York University in 2024.

Curator

Xiaojing Zhu has an interdisciplinary background in art history, design and curating. She graduated with a dual Bachelor of Arts degree from The Communication University of China and The New York Institute of Technology in 2021. With a dedication to the localisation context of art, she worked in different non-profit independent art institutions in China such as DRC. No.12 and The Bunker Space. is the public program curator of the UCCA Center for Contemporary Art at present. She aims to utter the characteristic sound of those veiled native narratives in sociopolitical perspectives through the potentiality of contemporary art in China and advocate for the extensive connection between art and the public in a systematic cognition. Her academic research focuses on geopolitics, gender consciousness, and intertwined design history under globalization in the contemporary art field. As a writer, she mostly published her critics and exhibition reviews on different platforms.