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James McQueen This Is Not A Bloody Hotel For Sale
James McQueen
This Is Not A Bloody Hotel
Mixed-media on paper
95 × 125 cm
About this work
James McQueen's "This Is Not A Bloody Hotel" is a mixed-media on paper work whose title delivers its message with characteristic British directness — exasperated, comic, and instantly recognisable as the kind of thing someone might actually say. In McQueen's hands, this piece of everyday speech becomes a work of formal and conceptual precision, the phrase embedded within a surface of mixed-media layers that give the paper work its material depth. The humour of the title coexists with a genuine inquiry into ideas of home, ownership, expectation, and the management of shared space — themes that are both universal and specifically legible within contemporary culture. James McQueen for sale at Guy Hepner encompasses works on paper in a range of formats and media. Guy Hepner presents James McQueen mixed-media works to collectors interested in British art that combines wit, formal intelligence, and genuine emotional intelligence. 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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