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.