Beyond Boundaries: Surreal Visions

Kelly Haejung Paik is a Seattle-based visual artist whose work explores the surreal dimensions of space, time, and perception. Her practice draws from Korean cultural heritage, abstraction, and surrealist traditions to reflect on memory, resilience, and presence.

For her Seattle Restored activation, she presents:

• A series of paintings that evoke quiet, dreamlike environments
• Visual spaces shaped by both internal experience and external reality
• Distortion, atmosphere, and spatial tension used to create contemplative stillness

With a Ph.D. in social science, Paik brings both emotional depth and intellectual curiosity to her process. Her work offers space for reflection—where time slows, and perception opens.