One night only. The concept has an exclusive ring that draws audiences for pop concerts, but for visual arts, does it work? Irish artist Rebecca Carroll will find out on Friday, when her show “The Path to Your Door” comes to Magnan Projects. Ms. Carroll’s work is on a three-stop American tour that started in Spokane, Wash., before moving to Las Gatos, Calif., and now to New York.

The exhibition is three separate but similarly slanted shows of 15 paintings each (45 in total). The cities were chosen when Ms. Carroll discovered that Spokane is the twin city to Limerick, Ireland, where she attended art school. Las Gatos is the sister city to her native Listowel, in Country Kerry. And New York, well, that’s a natural.

Ms. Carroll, who graduated from Limerick School of Art and Design in 1990, established a successful career in graphic design. But the desire to make personal artwork grew undeniable. In 1998, she reached a crossroads. “I had a terrible urge to create tactile work and move away from the computers,” she said. “I left all that, and I moved back to the county where I’m from.”

The early retirement allowed Ms. Carroll to move her family to Littor Strand, her childhood vacation spot, and take up residence in her grandmother’s old summer house. The picturesque seaside town’s nautical landscape, replete with a three-mile beach dotted with palm trees, provided ample visual sustenance. It was here, amidst the natural beauty of the Shannon Estuary, where Ms. Carroll cultivated her artistic persona at a very early age.

There, despite her affection for experimentation, Ms. Carroll began working solely in oils, although she occasionally incorporates flotsam and jetsam (mostly from the nearby beach).

Her work also contains a spiritual component. In her current stateside exhibition, “The Path to Your Door,” the name is taken from the first and last lines of “The Path,” a poem by Australian poet Michael Leunig. And many of her works have spiritual or religious titles, such as “The Road to Santiago de Compostela.” “Paintings are spiritual. It’s like a bridge from my realm to others,” she said.

Ms. Carroll uses the singular application of oil paint to create abstract canvases that explore the multiple qualities of color, texture, and marks. Influenced by the work of Jackson Pollock and others from the New York School, Ms. Carroll also cites artists from her home country as inspirations: the recently deceased abstract artist, Tony O’Malley, and contemporary artist, Joanna Kidney. “The process of painting to me is to pick up a tube of color,” she said. “It comes out of my soul or my head or my heart or whatever and it goes down my arm. It’s completely spontaneous.”

As was her touring schedule. Magnan Projects agreed to let Ms Carroll exhibit at the ir space at the last minute, but time was limited. She lobbied for just a few days, maybe two. And finally she suggested just one day, which worked out perfectly for everyone. “The people that are going to be there are going to be there and that’s it.”

Friday, 6-8 p.m., “Path to Your Door,” Magnan Projects, 317 Tenth Ave., between 28th and 29th streets, 212-244-2344.