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James McQueen Anthology I For Sale
James McQueen
Anthology I
Silkscreen on paper
About this work
Anthology I in its silkscreen edition represents James McQueen's printmaking practice at its most considered and deliberate. A silkscreen on paper, the work takes the 'anthology' as both its title and its formal principle — gathering together visual and textual elements in a composition that functions as a collected whole. The silkscreen process, with its characteristic flatness of surface and clarity of colour, lends the work a graphic authority that contrasts with McQueen's more gestural mixed-media works. Silkscreen allows McQueen to achieve a precision and repeatability that is distinct from his painting process, enabling the distribution of his visual ideas beyond the unique object. Anthology I on paper distils the artist's concerns into a printed form: language, image, and the relationship between them, rendered with the care and craft of the print studio. The editioned format makes the work accessible to a wider community of collectors while maintaining the integrity of the original composition. McQueen's printmaking represents an important strand of his practice, extending the reach of his text-based art into a democratic tradition of original prints. Anthology I, as a silkscreen, carries the full authority of the artist's vision while making it available in a form associated with the greatest printmakers of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries — a compelling entry point into McQueen's world defined by quality, craft, and the particular pleasures of the printed image.
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About James McQueen
James McQueen Paintings for Sale | Guy Hepner, New York
James McQueen is a British artist born in 1977 whose paintings sit at the intersection of Pop sensibility, material obsession, and dry British wit. He works under a pseudonym, and his identity is secondary to the work — which is the point. What matters is what ends up on the canvas.
McQueen's paintings are built, not simply applied. He works in layers — paint over paint, colour over colour — then sands the surface back to expose what lies beneath, then seals it in lacquer. The result is a depth that photographs struggle to capture. These are surfaces you need to stand in front of.
His subject matter has ranged from reinterpreted Penguin paperback covers to politically charged commentary to the large-scale mixed-media Anthology works now available through Guy Hepner. Across all of it runs a consistent preoccupation: the visual language of mass culture, rendered monumental and unfamiliar by the seriousness of the craft brought to bear on it.
McQueen has shown extensively in London and is represented in significant private collections internationally.
Guy Hepner | 177 Tenth Avenue, New York