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James McQueen If You Ever Leave Me For Sale
James McQueen
If You Ever Leave Me
Acrylic and mixed-media on canvas
1.6 × 152.4 cm
About this work
James McQueen's "If You Ever Leave Me" is an acrylic and mixed-media on canvas work in which the charged emotional register of the title — a plea, a threat, an open question — is given full spatial and material treatment on canvas. McQueen's practice consistently deploys the language of popular song, common speech, and shared emotional shorthand to generate works with immediate personal resonance and broader cultural reach. On canvas, the text or imagery associated with this phrase is rendered in layers of acrylic and mixed media that build the surface into something visually complex and emotionally weighted. James McQueen canvas works represent a distinct strand of his practice, distinct in scale and materiality from his print editions. James McQueen for sale at Guy Hepner encompasses both printed and painted works, offering collectors the full range of one of the most compelling practices in contemporary British art. Available for sale at Guy Hepner Gallery, New York.
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About James McQueen
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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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