Masami Teraoka is a Japanese born artist who lives in Hawaii. His artworks are stylistically inspired by the traditional woodblock prints of old Japan, but the content of his work is thoroughly contemporary. With searing Pop art sensibility, Masami-san explores the crisis ridden modern world.

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Cultural identity, AIDS, technology, random violence, mass consumerism, and war... all are targets for the brush of this powerful modern artist. The works presented here are from Masami-san's AIDS Series and the captions to the works when bracketed by quotation marks are the artist's own words.