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An interview with Storm Ascher in the Fall 2021 Visual Arts Journal about Superposition gallery
November 1, 2021 by Jeff Edwards
A page with the title Q & A: Storm Ascher by Anne Quito, and three color photographs of a young Hispanic woman with long hair standing next to a white sculpture of a giant teacup with several cartoonish lambs’ heads in it, a group of people facing us in a gallery space, and the same woman from the first photo looking at us over her right shoulder.

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.”

You can find copies of the Fall 2021 issue of Visual Arts Journal in racks located around campus, or read it online here.

A page with the phrase Nomadic living is not for the faint of heart in black lettering covering the top two-thirds of the space. Each word is in a different black font. The bottom third of the page contains several paragraphs of text about artist and curator Storm Ascher