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Overview
Rebecca Storm was born and raised on Vancouver Island, BC and now lives and works as a painter in Montreal, QC. She paints to understand the psyche. With consideration to forces inside and outside the self, she explores how they impact the way we catalogue memories— consciously, subconsciously, and tangibly. Often working from collaged photographic references, Storm reinterprets and distorts the iconography of nostalgia, combining traditional visual symbols, as well as offering new semiotics to decipher contemporary psychological conundrums.
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Works
Rebecca Storm Canadian, b. 1987
Looking for something casual, 2025Oil on canvas30.5 x 45.5 cm
12 x 17 7/8 inCopyright The ArtistStorm is curious about old advertising and marketing techniques regarding scent/perfume, specifically given their ability to impact memory. She is often struck by the way in which addiction rhetoric is...Storm is curious about old advertising and marketing techniques regarding scent/perfume, specifically given their ability to impact memory. She is often struck by the way in which addiction rhetoric is leveraged in these contexts (obsession, poison, addict) and how that is mirrored in a subjective capacity, with regard to how the habit of fantasizing or romanticising a person or relationship can become "addictive" in itself. I am curious about the subliminal impact this had on the generation coming of age at that time, in terms of it shaping how love/romance is understood. At the same time, she is drawn to the irony of how glib it all is, co-opting this nature of language and experience for the purpose of marketing fragrance, which feels reminiscent to me of modern dating. So in a way, Storm is working with familiar imagery to explore the dilution of language or meaning in contemporary contexts.
Provenance
Artist's studio
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Portrait of Rebecca Storm
EDUCATION
2013
BFA honors graduate with distinction, Major in Studio Arts, Minor in English Literature from Concordia University, Montreal, QC
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2024
- Duran Contemporain, Montreal, QC, “Jaw”
2023
- Espace Loulou, Montreal, QC, “Fossil Ephemeral”
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2026
- Enari Gallery, Amsterdam, NL, "Material Girl"
2025
- IRL Gallery, New York, USA, “GIFT”
- La Causa Gallería, Madrid, Spain, “The Bell Jar”
- Duran Contemporain, Montreal, QC, “Summer Salon”
2024
- Duran Contemporain, Montreal, QC. “In Minima Forma”
IRL Gallery, New York, USA, “Fritto Misto II”
2022
- AXANÉO7, Gatineau, Canada, “appairage, peering, pairing”
ARTFAIRS
2025
- Luxemburg Art Week (with Duran Contemporain), Luxemburg, Luxemburg
- Plural Contemporary Art Fair (with Duran Contemporain), Montreal, QC
2024
- NADA Miami (with Cob Gallery), Miami, USA
SELECTED PRESS
2025
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The Creative Independent, Spears, Lauren. “Painter and Photographer Rebecca Storm on the Burden of Choice.”
2024
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Editorial Magazine, Whittick, Olivia. “Rebecca Storm’s Fossil Ephemeral.”
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