biography

Yoshiyasu Hirano (born 1980) has been making artworks at Yellow (Izumisano, Osaka) since it was founded in 2008.

He has two series of animal drawings; one series characterized by dynamic compositions and thick black lines accenting the drawings, and another series characterized by uniform lines created with a ruler and color gel pens. His most recent series is word drawings, where he carefully draws words taken from newspapers and magazines. Hirano’s flat drawings of words have a great sense of liberation, being free from existing stereotypes.