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James McQueen Shut Up And Kiss Me - XL (Red) | 1/1 For Sale
James McQueen
Shut Up And Kiss Me - XL (Red) | 1/1
Mixed-media acrylic, spray paint, ink and silkscreen on fine art paper
About this work
Shut Up And Kiss Me — XL (Red) is a unique 1/1 mixed-media work on fine art paper in which James McQueen presents one of his most passionately coloured versions of this romantic command. Using acrylic, spray paint, ink, and silkscreen, the work is built through a layered process that produces a surface of considerable energy and depth. The red palette — bold, warm, unambiguous — charges the work with the full heat of desire and declaration. Red's associations in the language of love and passion are ancient and universal, and McQueen employs the colour with full awareness of this history. In Shut Up And Kiss Me — XL (Red), the palette and the text are in perfect alignment: both are statements of urgency and feeling, delivered without apology. The spray paint and ink contribute a sense of immediacy and movement to the composition, while the silkscreen grounds the text with typographic weight. As a 1/1 unique edition, this work exists as a singular object — the only one of its kind. Within McQueen's Shut Up And Kiss Me series, the red version is the most declarative and emotionally unguarded, a work that commits entirely to its subject. For collectors who respond to art that engages directly with feeling and desire, this is an important and compelling example of McQueen's practice at its most vivid.
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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