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James McQueen Book Spines | Orange For Sale
James McQueen
Book Spines | Orange
Acrylic and mixed-media on canvas
101.6 × 152.4 cm
About this work
James McQueen's "Book Spines | Orange" is an acrylic and mixed-media on canvas work in which a warm orange palette dominates the book spine imagery central to this ongoing series. The choice of a single dominant colour temperature distinguishes this canvas from the multi-coloured variants, giving it a more focused and concentrated visual character. Orange, with its associations of vitality and urgency, inflects the familiar motif with a new emotional register. The mixed-media approach allows McQueen to layer surface textures and gestural passages over and around the stacked spine forms, maintaining the tension between graphic clarity and painterly freedom. James McQueen paintings and mixed-media works on canvas represent some of the most distinctive output within his broader practice. James McQueen for sale at Guy Hepner gives collectors access to original canvas works that complement or stand apart from his print editions. 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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