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James McQueen If You Ever Leave Me (Orange) | 1/1 For Sale
James McQueen
If You Ever Leave Me (Orange) | 1/1
Mixed-media acrylic, spray paint, ink and silkscreen on fine art paper
66 × 99 cm
About this work
If You Ever Leave Me (Orange) presents the same emotionally resonant phrase as its companion works in a distinctly different palette — one that brings heat, dynamism, and assertive warmth to the text. A unique 1/1 work on fine art paper (66 × 99 cm), this piece is part of James McQueen's broader exploration of the language of romantic attachment, rendered through his signature layered process of acrylic, spray paint, ink, and silkscreen. Orange carries qualities of urgency and desire: it sits at the emotional register between warmth and alarm, pleasure and insistence. In this work, the colourway intensifies the declarative weight of the phrase, transforming a conditional statement of attachment into something that feels more immediate and pressing. Each colourway in the series functions not merely as a variation but as a distinct emotional register, making each work individually resonant. The technical process is consistent: gestural layers of spray paint and ink beneath and around silkscreened text, all on a fine art paper ground. This combination produces surfaces that document their own making, retaining evidence of process within the finished object. As a 1/1 edition, If You Ever Leave Me (Orange) is a genuinely unique work and a compelling example of McQueen's gift for turning the familiar language of love and longing into lasting art.
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- Mixed-media acrylic, spray paint, ink and silkscreen on fine art paper
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.
Guy Hepner | 177 Tenth Avenue, New York