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James McQueen If You Ever Leave Me (Yellow) | 1/1 For Sale
James McQueen
If You Ever Leave Me (Yellow) | 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 (Yellow) is a unique 1/1 mixed-media work on fine art paper (66 × 99 cm) that draws on one of the most emotionally loaded phrases in the language of romantic attachment. James McQueen renders this tender, slightly desperate declaration through his signature layered process — acrylic, spray paint, ink, and silkscreen — while the yellow colourway floods the work with warmth and a luminous intensity that sits in counterpoint to the vulnerability of the text. The phrase 'if you ever leave me' hangs between threat and plea, carrying within it an entire emotional history. McQueen understands that such expressions, used so often they have become nearly invisible in everyday speech, regain their power when isolated and given visual form. In this yellow-toned work, the warmth of the colour is in deliberate tension with the anxious undercurrent of the words — creating a piece that is simultaneously inviting and unsettling. As a 1/1 edition, If You Ever Leave Me (Yellow) is entirely unrepeatable, a singular object that embodies the transience and urgency of the feeling it describes. McQueen's international reputation rests on exactly this kind of work: deceptively simple in concept, deeply crafted in execution, and honest in its engagement with the phrases by which people experience love and longing.
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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