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James McQueen If You Ever Leave Me (Pink) | 1/1 For Sale
James McQueen
If You Ever Leave Me (Pink) | 1/1
Mixed-media acrylic, spray paint, ink and silkscreen on fine art paper
66 × 99 cm
About this work
The pink colourway of If You Ever Leave Me brings an immediate tenderness to James McQueen's exploration of romantic language, wrapping the work in a palette traditionally associated with sentiment, affection, and vulnerability. As a 1/1 unique work on fine art paper (66 × 99 cm), executed in acrylic, spray paint, ink, and silkscreen, this piece completes the emotional spectrum that McQueen maps through the repeated phrase across different colour fields. Pink softens the declarative urgency of the phrase, shifting the register from tension to longing — the colour suggests a sweetness that is inseparable from its fragility. Yet McQueen's process retains an underlying energy: spray paint and ink ensure that the work is activated, its surface alive with evidence of making. The silkscreened text, rendered with graphic certainty, cuts through the softness of the palette with the bluntness that characterises all of McQueen's language works. Across its yellow, orange, and pink colourways, If You Ever Leave Me traces a range of emotional states through colour alone, demonstrating McQueen's sophisticated understanding of the relationship between palette and feeling. This pink version — the gentlest of the series — is the most openly sentimental and perhaps the most disarming. It is a work that speaks directly to the heart through the particular language of a practised and confident artist.
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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