Albert Irvin

Albert Irvin’s ambition was to dispose his paintings with as much energy as he could possibly invest in them, finding in color, gesture, shape, and structure some way of expressing what he called “an inextinguishable life force.”

To New York and Back Again captures this vital force at a decisive point in Irvin’s development, when a mature abstract language and a new material vocabulary converged in paintings of extraordinary physical and emotional vitality.