There are images of bathing throughout painter Zoé Blue M.’s early oeuvre, but in her latest exhibition, “Hard Boiled,” M.’s first solo show at Jeffrey Deitch in New York, the Japanese bathhouse is at the center. It’s almost like you live your life with a lens on and then it’s removed in the bathhouse. Everything feels more beautiful in the bathhouse. This painting is actually a repurposed image from a traditional Japanese bathhouse. I find my work deeply ingrained in L.A. My mom is deeply L.A. We’re deeply Japanese American, from L.A., from Little Tokyo.