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James McQueen Oh Bollocks 1/1 For Sale
James McQueen
Oh Bollocks 1/1
Mixed-media acrylic, spray paint, ink and silkscreen on fine art paper
66 × 99 cm
About this work
"Oh Bollocks 1/1" by James McQueen is a unique mixed-media work on fine art paper, combining acrylic, spray paint, ink, and silkscreen into a single irrepeatable piece. The title's expletive exasperation is delivered with the deadpan directness typical of McQueen's handling of everyday language, converting a common expression of frustration into an art object of formal sophistication. As a 1/1, this work carries the authority of singularity — no other work exists with this precise combination of material layers, colour decisions, and hand-worked surface. The interplay of silkscreen precision and spray-paint energy is central to McQueen's visual language, creating a tension between the controlled and the spontaneous that gives his unique works their particular charge. James McQueen for sale at Guy Hepner includes this and other 1/1 mixed-media pieces that represent the most individually realised output within his practice. 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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