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James McQueen Anthology I | Unique For Sale
James McQueen
Anthology I | Unique
Mixed-media and silkscreen on paper
About this work
Anthology I | Unique is a one-of-a-kind mixed-media and silkscreen work on paper, and as its title suggests, functions as a gathering — a compilation of elements, phrases, and visual gestures that together constitute something more complex than any single statement. The 'Unique' designation marks this as a singular object within McQueen's practice, distinguished from any editioned versions by its unrepeatable combination of hand-applied media and silkscreened elements. James McQueen's anthologies — like all anthologies — are acts of curation and selection. In assembling different elements into a single work, McQueen creates a visual conversation between his various concerns: language, image, gesture, and the accumulated meanings that emerge when distinct elements are placed in proximity. The silkscreen process provides graphic precision, while the mixed-media additions introduce the particularity of the hand, ensuring that this 'Unique' designation is meaningful rather than merely nominal. The work represents McQueen at his most compositionally ambitious: rather than centring a single phrase or image, Anthology I brings multiple elements together in a relationship that is as much curatorial as painterly. For collectors, the 'Unique' status makes this a genuinely singular acquisition — a work that exists nowhere else, made once, carrying within its surfaces the full complexity of an artist working at the intersection of language, print, and painting.
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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