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Deuce 7 (a.k.a. Deuce Seven, Twenty Seven, 27) is the pseudonym of an American artist based in Minneapolis, Minnesota.

Background
Deuce 7 has been a railfan (trainspotter) since his early days, and eventually began freighthopping as a means of transport as well as to spread his work beyond the Minneapolis area. His love of trains and freighthopping strongly influences his art. Locomotives, freight cars, and railyard denizens are recurrent motifs in his work. Public awareness of his art first developed through displays of his graffiti on freight train boxcars.

Public Art
In 2006, Deuce 7 began putting up street art in Minneapolis, soon followed by more work in New York City, Seattle, and other major cities. These spontaneous public displays quickly caught the attention of street art enthusiasts and art critics due to Deuce 7's unique, vivid, and colorful style. In 2007, the Village Voice writer Camille Dodero crowned him the "new king of New York street art". His graffiti art displays on the Williamsburg Bridge plaque in New York City are considered definitive examples of his street art style.

 Deuce 7 street art, Williamsburg Bridge plaque, New York, New York (Photos: Luna Park)

Style
Deuce 7 uses aerosol paint, one-shot, and oilbars to create intensely colorful, spidery images of a variety of subjects which he refers to as "stories", which include characters he has met on his travels, romantic interests, trains, cityscapes, as well as purely expressive, surrealist images.

His fine art pieces carry the design hallmarks of his street style, and are also typically rendered with one-shot, ink, watercolor, and/or enamel spray paint. Some pieces creatively utilize mixed media including masks, found objects, and baroque moldings. His pen and ink drawings frequently evoke stark, decaying cityscapes of crumbling tenement buildings patrolled by strange vehicles and airborne creatures.

Notable exhibits
Deuce 7's work has been the subject of several solo shows at galleries in the U.S. and Great Britain. Many of his original works are now held in private collections. A number of Deuce 7 fine art originals have been reproduced as high quality limited edition art prints.

Gallery: Deuce 7 Fine Art Prints, 2007-2008

Image Links
thumb|right|180px| Detail of "Erin Jesme Christ", 2009 screenprint
 * Deuce 7 Boxcar Art md11forever Flickr photo stream
 * Deuce Seven Street Art Gallery Artminion.com
 * Deuce Seven Public Art Photo Index Flickr.com
 * Deuce 7 Street Art Photos Streetsy Daily Street Art
 * Deuce Seven New York City Wheatpaste Street Art Summer 2008
 * Deuce 7 Fine Art Portfolio ExpressoBeans Artist Wiki
 * Williamsburg Bridge Street Art, Deuce Seven

Exhibits and Shows

 * Artminion Deuce 7 Gallery, Minneapolis, Ongoing
 * "Lost Souls of the Cascade Tunnel", Soo Visual Arts Center (SooVAC), Minneapolis, March-April 2009
 * "Pneumonia, Isolation, and Disorder", BLVD Gallery, Seattle, 2008
 * SooVAC Deuce 7 Show November-December 2006

Media

 * Opening: Deuce Seven at Soo Visual Arts Center, Lindsy Halleckson, Minneapolis Arts Examiner, March 2009
 * Street artist Deuce Seven returns to his stomping grounds, Susannah Schouweiler, MinnPost.com March 2009
 * Deuce Seven balances graffiti, gallery worlds, Kate Iverson, Decider Twin Cities, March 2009
 * Deuce 7, Seattle Weekly, 2008
 * Our Old Pal Deuce Seven Bombs a Club Toilet, Camille Dodero, Village Voice, November 2008
 * The Alien Invader, Camille Dodero, Village Voice, 2007, March 2007
 * New King in Town: Deuce 7, Jake Dobkin, The Gothamist, Feb. 2007