‘ALWAYS EVER SINCE 83’ is a major solo exhibition by Torrick ‘TOXIC’ Ablack, and his second solo presentation with Woodbury House. The exhibition opened on 15th May and remains on view through 26th June 2026.

The title names 1983 not as the year the art world noticed TOXIC, but as the year he decided — without permission, and without anyone else’s say-so — that he was an artist. What followed has been more than four decades of uninterrupted practice, carried out alongside the most consequential figures of his generation, shaped by a year that crystallised an entire cultural moment.

This is the exhibition that finally tells that story in full.

To understand the weight of this show, it helps to understand the year that titles it.

1983 was the moment New York’s underground was forced into the rooms it had previously been kept out of. The galleries opened their doors. The institutions began to pay attention. A generation of artists who had built their practice on the streets and surfaces of the city walked into the spaces of contemporary art — not as observers, but as authors of what would come next. TOXIC was among them. Not at the edges, not as a peripheral presence, but at the centre of the story.

Forty years later, the practice has not stopped. It has deepened, evolved, and continued — quietly, consistently, and entirely on its own terms.

‘ALWAYS EVER SINCE 83’ is the exhibition that brings that arc into a single room.

The show presents a major new body of work made specifically for this presentation, brought together with selected historical pieces dating back to 1983. The new works carry the freedom of an artist long past the need to prove anything. The historical pieces return the viewer directly to the year the title names — placing the origin of the practice in the same room as its most current expression.

What hangs in the gallery is not a survey of a career. It is forty years held together. One continuous line.

The exhibition is accompanied by two exclusive limited edition print releases.

The first is a print release by the artist himself — a signed and numbered edition produced specifically to mark the exhibition, drawn directly from one of the works in the show.

The second is a collaborative release with the Estate of Rammellzee, built on an original print previously released by the estate. TOXIC has hand-finished twenty of those prints, working directly onto the print — placing his own hand in dialogue with one of Rammellzee’s enduring works. Each of the twenty is therefore unique. No two are the same.

It is not a retrospective gesture. It is the continuation of a relationship built in the formative years of New York’s underground — between two artists who were not simply contemporaries, but part of the same creative ecosystem. The release places that relationship back in dialogue with the work, alongside an exhibition that recognises both artists as central to the story of their era.

Both editions are available to enquire about directly through the gallery.

A full exhibition catalogue accompanies the show — including the complete works list, a foreword by Woodbury House, an introduction in the artist’s own voice. 

The catalogue is available to download here:

‘ALWAYS EVER SINCE 83’ is on view at Woodbury House, our flagship Mayfair gallery, through 26th June 2026.

Visitors are welcome during gallery hours, Monday to Friday.

To arrange a private viewing, or to enquire about available works, please contact the gallery directly.

Woodbury House
29 Sackville Street,
Mayfair,
London,
W1S 3DX

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0203 750 2222