About the artist:
At times disjointed, Rebecca Storm’s paintings are like intrusive thoughts. She paints to understand the psyche, jarring the subconscious through contrasting scenes. Referencing her own photography, as well as a more collective visual vernacular, her surrealistic paintings harmonize disparate subject matter for the purpose of studying the tension between them; intimating a new, relational milieu. The resulting painted dialogue compels recontextualization of an image’s significance, mimicking our memory’s inclination for subconscious distortion.
Inspired by tenebrism, and with respect to her experience as a photographer, Storm is equally interested in capturing the light. Not only through her practical application and removal of paint, but metaphorically, too; endeavoring to explore and understand contemporary sociocultural and psychological conundrums through her work.
Rebecca Storm was born and raised on Vancouver Island, BC and earned her BFA at Concordia University in Montreal, where she currently resides. As an inaugural, longstanding collaborator and contributor to Editorial Magazine, her primary creative outlets were writing and photography until shifting to painting in 2020 while recovering from a TBI. Storm has since participated in numerous group shows, exhibiting at Enari Gallery in Amsterdam, Duran Mashaal in Montreal, IRL Gallery in New York City, Luxembourg Art Fair, MXM Gallery in Madrid, and in Miami with Cob Gallery for NADA Art Basel.
Specs:
Working from her own photography, Storm isolates a moment of crude repair as an allegory for grief. Linen is coated in layers of ground and then sanded down, followed by paint, applied and wiped away. Stains create a sense of depth and texture, offering a framework for the paint to be applied and wiped again, perpetuating the cycle. This repetitive, methodical process evokes a sense of neurosis, highlighted by the compulsion to perfect the text. The signage subject suggests an occasion of unchecked optimism—to fix or heal as quickly as possible for the sake of function and/or appearances, and in doing so undermining the very thing we seek to restore. The careful translation of temporary tape into paint functions as a reverent ode to impermanence.More
- Unframed
- Signed
3:00 PM, Mar 26, 2026.
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