Robert Storr: Fits and Starts

Robert Storr’s one-man show at Vito Schnabel, Fits and Starts, includes an array of Flashe-on-canvas-on-board abstract geometric works, each executed in 2025. All of the works are untitled and painted on rectangular or square canvases. The bulk of the works take the form of planks; inside, Storr divides the pictorial space into uniform blocks, arranging them into two-dimensional T-, L-, and skew-shaped tetrominoes sequenced within an implied grid format. As was the case in Storr’s geometric abstractions that were exhibited in the summer 2025 three-person show at Peninsula Gallery, Sacred Geometry, the variability of Storr’s formalist exercise remains constrained to palette-based permutations. Like Piet Mondrian and Bart van der Leck before him, Storr mostly works with elemental color arrangements.