Mirror A (Dedicated to Borges) also called 'Mirror of Borges A'

Michiko Hoshino

Michiko Hoshino’s "Mirror of Borges A". was part of her ongoing homage to writer Jorge Luis Borges. The ABE raisonné notes about her work from the time were "filled with tension that resembles a struggle btween 'mad' chaotic disorder and orderly structure...".

Hoshino’s use of lithography in itself lends more weight to the experience of the piece, as the viewer contemplates the time-consuming, physical effort of rendering the image onto the zinc matrix and printing it onto the sheet.

Hoshino focused almost primarily on lithography from the late 1960s until the early 2000s, traveling to Argentina, New York, and to Canada to further her studies in the technique. As well, her main theme was the writings of Argentine poet Jorge Luis Borges as well as his person, creating several portraits and figurative works of the writer in the same Surrealist style as her non-figurative prints.

Michiko Hoshino was born in Tokyo, Japan, in 1934. After studying liberal arts at the Tokyo Woman's Christian University (BA, 1954), she switched to art studies and pursued printmaking and painting at the Tokyo National University of Fine Arts, where she received her BA in oil painting in 1963. In the late 1960s she began to focus almost exclusively on lithography, exhibiting extensively throughout Europe, the Middle East, North and South America, and Japan. In the 1990s she traveled to Buenos Aires and New York City on an overseas study scholarship from the Japanese government.

She is a member of the Kokugakai Art Association, the Japan Artist Association, and the Japan Print Association. She maintains a studio in Tokyo, Japan. Find a complete list of Hoshino's exhibitions and collections on her website.