James McQueen | Shit Happens Protest Art of Woodstock

of Woodstock

Laminated giclée print on aluminium composite panel screenprinted with glitter

His British landscape practice is rooted in sustained observation of the actual countryside

The Future Is Yours is among his most directly optimistic works

the sculpture takes this linguistic proposition into three-dimensional space — the basketball as a carrier of both the sporting aspiration and the artistic declaration

James McQueen | Shit Happens Protest Art of WoodstockJames McQueen Shit Happens (2024) Limited edition Shit Happens is one of the oldest and most philosophically precise pieces of vernacular wisdom the acknowledgment that bad things occur without cause, without justice, and without the possibility of adequate response. McQueen's 2024 version brings his layered, lacquered technique to this observation with the formal authority of his Penguin book cover aesthetic: the phrase that has always been on bumper