Albert Irvin has been painting abstract compositions for most of his career and yet his work has remained grounded in his experience of the urban world. In 1980 he started to work on silkscreen prints with Chris Betambeau of Advanced Graphics, and many of these, like his paintings, bear the names of streets or other locations. Only occasionally the shape is linked with the real world, as in the case of Oval. Rather, these names describe the wor's source of inspiration, very often conveying a sense of the tensions and potnetial violence of the urban experience.