“Irish Gothic,” a generous survey of Patricia Hurl’s paintings and drawings from across the seventy-nine-year-old artist’s career, is by turns pleasing, poignant, and chilling. One of few solo exhibitions lately programmed at the Irish Museum of Modern Art, this welcome retrospective celebrates Hurl’s four-decade contribution to the slow hard work of making space for women within the patriarchal domains of Irish art, offering well-founded institutional recognition of her artistic stamina and ardently feminist creative mettle.

In 1980—her attitudes and ambitions shaped by seventeen years of marriage