Chinatown, New York
Murray Clarke & Alberto Lamback
One Too Many Mornings
IRL GalleryOne Too Many Mornings brings together works by Murray Clarke and Alberto Lamback, tracing two distinct approaches to interiority—at once spatial and psychological. Clarke's paintings develop through repetition and accumulation. Motifs—pajamas, scarves, textiles—recur across compositions that feel both staged and inhabited. Pattern and surface begin to take on a structuring role, flattening and complicating space while reinforcing a sense of ritual and routine. The works hover between comfort and excess, where familiarity becomes subtly estranged. Lamback's small-scale panels move in a more condensed register. Working with fragments—skin, light, flowers—his images feel provisional, as if held in suspension. Forms emerge through soft layering and partial erasure, resisting fixed resolution. What remains is atmospheric and tactile, closer to sensation than depiction. In dialogue, the two practices articulate interiority through different means: one expansive and accumulative, the other reductive and elusive. Together, they hold attention on fleeting states—moments that register just before they settle, or just as they begin to dissolve.