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James McQueen Anthology II For Sale
James McQueen
Anthology II
Silkscreen on paper
About this work
Anthology II is a silkscreen on paper in which James McQueen continues the anthology form first explored in Anthology I, bringing together a further gathering of visual and textual elements in a composition defined by its curatorial sensibility. As a silkscreen edition, the work offers the precision and graphic clarity of the print medium, translating McQueen's visual concerns into a form that is reproducible without being diminished — silkscreen at its best produces works of genuine refinement and visual intelligence. The anthology, as a form, implies selection and arrangement: a set of choices about what to include and how to order it. McQueen's Anthology II continues this project with the same principles — gathering, placing, relating — while pushing the composition further than its predecessor. The work benefits from McQueen's facility with typography and layout, his understanding of how elements relate on a flat surface, and his capacity to create images that read simultaneously as pictures and as texts. For collectors, Anthology II represents an important strand of McQueen's printmaking practice: the large-format silkscreen that compiles the artist's concerns into a single, formally resolved image. These are works that reward repeat looking, offering new details and relationships with each encounter. McQueen's anthologies make his practice available to a wider collector base while maintaining the quality and intentionality that distinguishes his finest work.
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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.
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