OTWO

Born in 1979, James Carey has been creating images and art since childhood. When he became aware of the graffiti movement in New York City, in the early 1990s, he realised his work could take on a different meaning in a totally different and engaging environment. To work anonymously, creating paintings and installations in an urban environment, he adopted an alter ego, and now signs his work as O.Two. Graffiti provided a public outlet for otherwise personal drawings. Freed from the constraints of format, the artwork could influence and affect the space it occupied and alter the visual landscape. Graffiti art became an immediate and powerful channel for his energies, the resulting work growing in vitality with every new painting. O.Two creates work based around the written type-form. His canvases are snap-shots of the fractured typography and ornate interpretations of New York graffiti that have emerged from the artist's illegal pieces.

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