uncompromising work... unpalatable
excesses...”
John Fitz Gibbon, California A-Z And Return, Butler Institute of American Art, Youngstown, Ohio. 1990. p.84.

“I’m very sensitive to the fact that a lot of people don’t like your work, and a lot of people can’t stand your work, but I have yet to find anyone who’s indifferent to your work.”
Mark Van Proyen, An Interview with Jim Albertson, Expo-See. 1984.

“His harsh figurative paintings are enlivened both by his choice of subjects- often he chooses themes already socially charged or taboo: sex, death, racism, religion, and violence - and by a manner of painting in which the paint is moved about through intense, unpredictable brushwork.”
Whitney ChadwicK, Narrative Imagism. Art Journal. vol.45. no.4.
Winter 1985. p.313

“...a lurid, fiercely romantic and improbable style of painting which has its precedents in the work of Chaim Soutine or Max Beckman...”
Marcia Tucker,“Bad” Painting. The New Museum. N.Y. 1978