Current Show
October 8 - November 7, 2026
Richard Storms
Rapid Unscheduled Disassembly
October 8 - November 7, 2026
Gagné Contemporary is excited to present RAPID UNSCHEDULED DISASSEMBLY, a solo exhibition of new and recent paintings by Richard Storms.
As a euphemism for sudden explosions and unforeseen systemic failure, Rapid Unscheduled Disassembly couldn't come at a more appropriate time.
It’s hard to look away from a Richard Storms painting. That’s as true of his exquisite abstractions from the natural world as it is with his radical imagery from the media smear of political news, entertainment, propaganda.
In the hands of Richard Storms, these paintings collide into a postmodern sublime – beautiful and frightening, elegant and insidious.
From Richard – "My imagery, culled from cable news and social media, reflects on the ongoing political theatre in the United States, where spectacle and crisis are continuously produced, circulated, and consumed. Within this visual economy, images of pomposity and violence have become both ubiquitous and repetitive. They appear across screens with relentless frequency: lavish monuments, smoke-filled skylines, and the aftermath of destruction. Compressed into endless feeds, these images risk becoming familiar to the point of abstraction.
Richard continues – "In contrast to these social representations are gestural abstractions suggesting another kind of reality, one of nature and the potential of an unbiased beauty. These paintings seek to undermine the uncertain future suggested by the daily reportage with one of optimism and hope."
Richard Storms work is held in many private and corporate collections, including TD Bank, Royal Bank of Canada, Bank of Montreal, the Musée d’Art Contemporain in Montreal, Museum of Contemporary Art in Toronto, Canada Council Art Bank in Ottawa, University of Alberta in Edmonton, Kamloops Art Gallery in British Columbia, and Megafield Art Space in Beijing, China, to name only a few.
Storm’s has had several exhibitions with Robert Birch galleries, and has shown at United Contemporary in Toronto, Gallery Jones in Vancouver, the Power Plant, the Art Gallery of Hamilton, Museum London, and The EVAC, New York, NY, among many more.
