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James McQueen Book Spines | Multi-Coloured For Sale
James McQueen
Book Spines | Multi-Coloured
Acrylic and mixed-media on canvas
152.4 × 101.6 cm
About this work
"Book Spines | Multi-Coloured" by James McQueen is an acrylic and mixed-media on canvas work that translates the artist's Book Spines imagery into a fully painterly register. Where the silkscreen editions flatten and systematise the book spine motif, this canvas version introduces the physicality and variability of paint, giving the subject a more immediate, hand-worked character. The multi-coloured treatment creates a visually dynamic surface in which individual spines read as both autonomous colour notes and components of a larger compositional rhythm. McQueen's decision to work the same motif across different media and formats speaks to a rigorous investigation of how image and material interact. James McQueen for sale at Guy Hepner encompasses both print editions and unique canvas works, offering collectors the opportunity to engage with his practice at multiple levels of scale and materiality. Available for sale at Guy Hepner Gallery, New York.
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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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