02/02/2025
SKRAPS is a documentation project capturing multidisciplinary artist Yasushi Matsui’s daily life and travels through ink and watercolor sketches, created on scrap paper collected during his journeys and compiled in hand-made sketchbooks since 2016.
In keeping with DIY Zine culture, these original drawings are scanned and printed with a home printer. The illustrated recollections of Yasushi’s journey are placed within carefully selected salvaged frames and presented as an iconic Zine that transcends chronological time and cultural geography, providing an incredible overview of experiences the artist deems noteworthy enough to document for posterity.
In February 2020, right before the lock-down, he exhibited the first four years of SKRAPS collections at Anno Domini Gallery in San Jose. Since then, it has been another five years of archives documenting his life during the pandemic in Northern California.
In commemoration of that, this exhibition showcases the entire collection of prints from the last five years of SKRAPS. Additionally, he released “book flip” videos of all his SKRAPS books on his YouTube Channel with his original soundtracks.
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YouTube: /playlists “SKRAPS books”
Yasushi Matsui, an art and craft lover, was born in the US, but grew up in Japan, and now resides in the San Francisco Bay Area, where he is dedicated to drawing and painting. Over the past two decades, he has honed his skills through live painting at events and festivals, creating murals, producing commissioned illustrations, and collaborating with various artists and renowned brands such as Chrome industries and Moss Snowsticks. Matsui has exhibited his work in Northern California at venues including Anno Domini Gallery in San Jose, CA in February 2020, and Epitome Gallery in Eureka, CA in March 2023.
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TigerBunny Studio presents: SKRAPS - a solo exhibition by Yasushi Matsui
Opening party:
Sunday Feb. 23, 2025
Noon-6pm
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