Ignoring Hiroko's art is impossible. Viewing her images is a forbidden trip into her surrealistic subconscious. She got my attention with her painting, "Hannya", which depicts a voluptuous woman with a demon's head. I was passing a San Francisco gallery when it snatched my attention. Since then, I have found that Hiroko's art can turn the emotional tables on me; using signature bold colors, her Japanese tradition and an adopted American bawdiness, she mixes it up to shock or make me laugh at will.

Rebirth