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James McQueen Protect Me From What I Want | 1/1 For Sale
James McQueen
Protect Me From What I Want | 1/1
Mixed-media acrylic, spray paint, ink and silkscreen on fine art paper
66 × 99 cm
About this work
James McQueen's "Protect Me From What I Want | 1/1" is a unique mixed-media work on fine art paper, drawing on one of the most resonant phrases in contemporary culture. In McQueen's hands, the text becomes both anchor and provocation, grounding the work in a widely recognised cultural moment while opening it onto questions of desire, self-sabotage, and the ambivalence of wanting. The physical work — acrylic, spray paint, ink, and silkscreen on fine art paper — is produced in McQueen's most materially complex register, layering processes and surfaces to create a piece of considerable visual and tactile richness. As a 1/1, it is unrepeatable and wholly singular within his output. James McQueen for sale at Guy Hepner at the unique works level represents some of the most significant pieces available in his primary market programme. Guy Hepner is proud to present this exceptional James McQueen work to serious collectors. 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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