Ken Sugimoto




About The Artist
Ken Sugimoto • Lake Forest, CA
Metal • CUSTOM COMMISSIONS
I moved to the US in 2005, where I met the world of metal arts while working as an industrial designer. I then joined a year-long program in Los Angeles to learn blacksmithing. Since then I have been willfully laboring in the world of metal art by both exploring and challenging my artistic abilities and limits. I was born and raised in Japan and I studied design in Tokyo. I have over 25 years of experience as a product designer in both Japan and the US, and now work as a full-time artist.
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Q&A with the ArtistTell us how your work is made.I make unique sculptural metalwork with an organic form that is achieved by hand-forging and polishing the steel. I start by heating the steel in a forge. I then create a form that is inherently organic by hammering the forged steel by hand. The key elements of my work are tension and balance. |