Today, Woodbury House releases the full documentary from Torrick ‘TOXIC’ Ablack’s 2024 solo exhibition — ‘All Imperfections Included.’ Thirty minutes. Four decades of work. One artist, entirely in his own words.

You can watch it here: All Imperfections Included | Full Documentary

But before you do — here is what you are about to watch, and why it matters.

When Woodbury House presented ‘All Imperfections Included’ in 2024, it marked an important moment in the gallery’s programme. Thirty original works by Torrick ‘TOXIC’ Ablack — spanning four decades, brought together under one roof in Mayfair for the first time.

The title was deliberately chosen. Not as a statement of imperfection, but as an act of acceptance — of the full complexity of a life lived in art, across continents, through loss, and without compromise. Every mark, every symbol, every surface in that exhibition carried the weight of a practice that had never stopped, even when the world wasn’t paying attention.

For many visitors, it was their first encounter with TOXIC’s work. For those who already knew his story — the Bronx, Tag Master Killers, Rammellzee, Basquiat — it was a confirmation of everything they had suspected. Here was an artist of genuine historical importance, finally given the space and the institutional framing his work had always deserved.

The film opens in the days before the private view — before the crowds, before the press, before the champagne. TOXIC arrives at Woodbury House and immediately makes the space his own. He finalises works on the wall. He tags the gallery with the show title in his own hand. He moves through the rooms with the instinct and authority of someone who has never needed to ask permission.

What follows is one of the most candid and revealing pieces of content Woodbury House has produced. In Chapter Two — the centrepiece of the film — TOXIC walks Woodbury House founder Steven Sulley through the exhibition work by work, memory by memory. What emerges is not a rehearsed artist statement or a polished interview. It is a conversation — about where the work comes from, what the symbols mean, what has been lost, and what it means to still be here, still making, after everything.

The private view follows. Then the public opening. And then a further chapter — a limited edition print by TOXIC finding a new home in the Green Room at The Devonshire, the setting for a Woodbury House collectors gathering.

The documentary closes with a single card.

“The story isn’t finished.”

That closing card was not accidental. We are releasing this documentary now because the next chapter is already here — ‘ALWAYS EVER SINCE 83’.

In less than four weeks, Torrick ‘TOXIC’ Ablack returns to Woodbury House for ‘ALWAYS EVER SINCE 83’ — a major new solo exhibition opening 15th May 2026 in Mayfair. This is not a continuation of ‘All Imperfections Included’. It is an entirely new proposition — new works made specifically for this show, alongside major earlier pieces dating all the way back to 1983. The full arc of a practice that began in the Bronx, moved through the most significant cultural moment of the twentieth century, survived losses that took nearly everyone else, and arrived here — at this exhibition, at this gallery, at this precise moment in time — still evolving, still searching, still at full force.

We are releasing the documentary today because it is the best possible introduction to that story. Because thirty minutes with TOXIC — hearing him speak about his work, his life, his symbols, his losses, and his refusal to be defined by anyone else’s version of his history — will tell you everything you need to know about why ‘ALWAYS EVER SINCE 83’ is worth your attention.

Watch the documentary. Understand the story. Then come and see what happens next.

Torrick ‘TOXIC’ Ablack is one of the most historically significant figures to emerge from New York’s cultural underground of the early 1980s. A founding member of Tag Master Killers under the mentorship of Rammellzee, TOXIC was present at the defining moments of an era — including Basquiat’s second exhibition with Larry Gagosian in Los Angeles, which gave rise to Hollywood Africans, one of the most celebrated and politically charged paintings in the history of contemporary art. TOXIC is named within it — not as a peripheral figure, but as a subject. Across Basquiat’s entire body of work, he is the most depicted individual after Charlie Parker.

Exhibited at the Sidney Janis Gallery in 1983 alongside Basquiat, Haring, Futura and Rammellzee, and the subject of a dedicated three-artist show at the same gallery in 1985, TOXIC’s institutional credentials are as robust as any artist of his generation. What sets him apart is not proximity to greatness — it is his own unbroken forty-year practice, carried forward without compromise, without leveraging famous names, and without ever allowing the market to define the work.

He is currently represented exclusively in the United Kingdom by Woodbury House, Mayfair.

‘All Imperfections Included’ | Full Documentary | Torrick ‘TOXIC’ Ablack | Solo Exhibition at Woodbury House

Watch on YouTube Here  — 30 minutes 

‘ALWAYS EVER SINCE 83’ A Solo Exhibition by Torrick ‘TOXIC’ Ablack 15th May — 26th June 2026 Woodbury House, 29 Sackville Street, Mayfair, London, W1S 3DX

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