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.”

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