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James McQueen Book Spines | Pink For Sale
James McQueen
Book Spines | Pink
Acrylic and mixed-media on canvas
152.4 × 101.6 cm
About this work
"Book Spines | Pink" by James McQueen is an acrylic and mixed-media on canvas work that renders the artist's recurring book spine imagery in a prevailing pink tonality. Pink's associations — simultaneously warm and cool, romantic and abrasive — lend this work a distinct character within the Book Spines series, producing a canvas that is both visually engaging and tonally specific. McQueen works across the surfaces of his canvases with a combination of acrylic paint and mixed media, building depth and materiality into what might otherwise read as a purely graphic image. This approach gives the Book Spines series its capacity to sustain interest across multiple variants and formats. Collectors interested in James McQueen for sale will find that the canvas works offer a different and more intimate experience than the print editions. Guy Hepner presents James McQueen paintings and mixed-media canvases as part of its ongoing commitment to significant British contemporary art. 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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