David Storey (b. 1948) is a painter whose work explores the shifting boundary between representation and abstraction. Born in Madison, Wisconsin, Storey studied at the University of California, Berkeley, before transferring to the University of California, Davis, where he earned a B.A. in 1970 and an M.F.A. in 1972. His formative years in Northern California exposed him to a Bay Area painting tradition that embraced color, figuration and narrative while remaining deeply engaged with abstraction. After moving to New York in 1980, Storey developed a distinctive visual language in which fragments of figures, landscapes and architectural forms emerge from fields of geometric and organic shapes. His paintings often suggest recognizable scenes without revealing straightforward narratives, allowing imagery and abstraction to coexist. Storey received a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship and a New York Foundation for the Arts grant and was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2010. His work is held in public collections including the Museum of Modern Art and the Boston Museum of Fine Arts.