KUE KING INC.
JACKSONVILLE, FLORIDA

Kue King (b. 1981) took to art as his first language. As a 6-year-old Filipino immigrant, Kue struggled between his old and new language. As he got older he found his true language in art. Creating gave him the voice he needed to be understood. In the quiet providence of Hilo bay, Kue found the solitude to discover and explore his potential. In Kona, he found a mentor and patron in famed architect Lucky Bennett. About Kue King Kue King transforms bronze, brass, and stainless steel wire into fine art sculpture. At the intersection of craft, design, contemporary art, and modernism, the artist finds the inner peace he’s searched the world for within his own hands. His work is honored with museum placements and awards, with commissions in hospitals, banks, public libraries, schools, and other large scale public places. Although fully self-taught in his chosen medium of wire, King has apprenticed under blacksmiths, interior designers, and architects, granting him a strong sense of how art occupies space. Kue King works meditatively through painstaking techniques. He starts with cold industrial metals and bends them to speak the complexities of dendritic life, finding the symmetrical understandings of nature nested in the center. Each piece has a unique signature much like snowflakes, making King’s work truly distinctive. Facebook allows me to share my sculpture and my growth process within my work. It’s a continual documentary of one artists journey. When I started posting here, I was leaving the Big Island of Hawaii to embark on making a mark in San Francisco and beyond. I have been homeless to living in mansions, sailing the seas, lost to finding full circles in my life. In other words, the life of an artist is far from boring. I hope you enjoy connecting with with me here. Feel free to look back on posts from years past to present, it’s been a wild ride. Kue King