Kue King

Kue King (born Ronald Sunga Reyes; January 17, 1981) is a Filipino American sculptor.

Biography Kue King was born Ronald Sunga Reyes on January 17, 1981, in the City of Olongapo in the province of Zambales, Philippines. Youngest of six from a first generation Asian American family, Reyes lived in Olongapo until age seven, when his parents (Maria Teresa Sunga Reyes and Camillo Reyes) moved to Jacksonville, Florida where he spent the next seventeen years of his life. Although a photography major at the Douglas Anderson School of Arts, it was here that he started pursuing his artistic interests, whilst frequently travelling and furnishing an image of a lebenskünstler. At the age of 24, he moved from Florida to Hawaii, where he received awards (for a best show, a second and a first place for an artwork) for three consecutive years by the East Hawaii Cultural Center. At age 29 he moved to San Francisco; he has been travelling ever since.

Work

Inspired by nature and dance, He also works with jewellery. - King would turn into an original art form, combining aluminum, stainless steel fiber, brass wire and feathers to achieve the "grand sense of the organic". the sculptures were supposedly inspired by the artist's meditation among the branches of a tree gripping a side of a cliff and curving upward above a ravine.

Exhibitions Museo Antropologico y de Arte Contemporaneo de Guayaquil, Ecuador, Permanent Collection, Lobby. Centro de Arte Contemporáneo de Quito, Ecuador, Permanent Collection, Lobby. Adriana Hoyos, Cumbayá, Ecuador Adriana Hoyos, Miami, USA Springfield's 9th & Main gallery Gumps, San Francisco Coup de Tate, San Francisco Cabana Home, Mill Valley, CA Lucky Street Gallery, Key West, Florida Sausalito Arts Festival, Sausalito, California (2011, 2012)