Richard Storms: Tulipa

United Contemporary, until March 22, 2025

For Richard Storms, painting is a site of tension—its inherent problems and messiness present an ongoing challenge. His practice oscillates between acceptance and rejection of representation, embracing a space of pictorial in-betweenness that reflects a deep skepticism toward visual certainty and the notion of objective fact.

In late 2023, Storms returned to an exploration of nature and organic forms, considering their potential within abstraction. Tulipa centres on beauty—its presence, fragility, and transformative possibilities in painting—offering a meditation on perception, form, and the shifting boundaries between the real and the imagined.