Founded by artist Kevin Kato and operating out of Axiom Tattoo & Piercing, Eleventh Round is built on traditional discipline, creative integrity, and tattoos that help you feel more at home in your own skin.
Traditional commercial shops focus on rapid turnover—squeezing clients into brief, transactional time slots.
At Eleventh Round, Kevin Kato believes the tattoo is part of your living legacy. We treat tattooing as a highly personal, slow-paced custom ritual that values the stories and memories behind your marks.
Kevin’s traditional apprenticeship background instills a profound respect for tattoo history, clean sterilization, machine mechanics, and the lineage of the permanent mark.
We don't chase disposable, flash-in-the-pan internet trends. We design classic compositions with Japanese-inspired flow, bold grey wash, or etched details made to last.
This is the emotional anchor of Eleventh Round: crafting deliberate layouts that help you reclaim, decorate, and feel deeply comfortable in your physical temple.
The final tattoo matters, but so does everything around it: the creative collaboration, the comfort of the space at Axiom, and deep shared trust between client and artist.
Composition, movement, and symbolism from a long, living tradition.
Depth and dimension built entirely in shades of shadow and light.
Soft, stippled texture that settles and ages with grace.
Line and mark-making that reads like a hand-cut engraving.
Tattoo prices can range from a studio minimum for a simple design to several thousand dollars for large custom work...
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