An interview with Storm Ascher in the Fall 2021 Visual Arts Journal

The latest issue of SVA’s Visual Arts Journal includes an interview by journalist and critic Anne Quito with VCS alumnus Storm Ascher about her nomadic art gallery Superposition and her life and career after graduating from the College. Here’s a brief excerpt from the article’s introduction:

Thriving in the uncertainty of leaping from place to place requires a good measure of agility, organization and personal courage. It’s a stance that appeals to curator, artist and writer Storm Ascher (BFA 2018 Visual & Critical Studies), who in 2018 founded Superposition, a roving art gallery that has produced winning pop-up exhibitions in cities like Los Angeles, Miami and New York.

Ascher developed the concept for Superposition during her senior year at SVA, when she produced a film that investigated the role that traditional brick-and-mortar art galleries play in rising rents and real-estate speculation. She later studied the pragmatics of running a gallery at Sotheby’s Institute of Art’s master’s in art business program. 

“I wanted to work in art without feeling like a gentrifier,” she says, “and I wanted to work with emerging artists in a socially conscious way.”