ArtTable’s 2024 Annual Benefit

ArtTable’s 2024 Annual Benefit and Award Ceremony took place on February 28, 2024 at Neuehouse in Los Angeles, honoring Storm Ascher with the New Leadership Award. Featuring a discussion between Storm Ascher and Zoe Lukov and remarks from ArtTable Fellowship Alumna Nadia Estrada, the evening brought together ArtTable members and supporters dedicated to advancing the leadership of women and nonbinary leadership in the visual arts. 

We extend our heartfelt gratitude to all who attended and contributed to the event’s success. We are grateful to our Benefit Co-Chairs Sanford Biggers and Amy Sherald, and to all our host committee members. 

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Highlights from ArtTable’s 2024 Annual Benefit & Award Ceremony in Los Angeles, Honoring New Leadership Award Honoree Storm Ascher

2024 Benefit Co-Chairs

Sanford Biggers
Amy Sherald

2024 Benefit Host Committee & Supporters

Member

Doyle Auctioneers & Appraisers

Community

Bloomberg Philanthropies

Leadership

Negin & David Ascher

Executive

Nevada Museum of Art
Imperfect Family Foundation

Member Friend

Gianna Drake-Kerrison
Kent Kelley
Dr. V. Joy Simmons

Mentorship Ticket Purchasers

Delphine Daniels
Nuria Richards


About the Honoree

New Leadership Awardee

New Leadership Awardee, Storm Ascher

Storm Ascher is an independent curator, writer, and founder of Superposition Gallery and The Hamptons Black Arts Council. She has a BFA in Visual & Critical Studies from the School of Visual Arts (2018), an MA in Art Business from Sotheby’s Institute and Claremont Graduate University (2020), and is a Forbes 30 Under 30 Honoree for Art & Style 2022.

Storm founded Superposition Gallery in August 2018. She started her curatorial projects with a mission to subvert gentrification tactics used in urban development through art galleries. She refers to her gallery as “a socially conscious approach to contemporary art with a focus on borrowed space”. Superposition Gallery has drawn in exhibition participation from over 100 artists of different cultural backgrounds and multidisciplinary practices, such as Layo Bright, MR. WASH, Derrick Adams, Ludovic Nkoth, Jessica Taylor Bellamy, Tariku Shiferaw, Ambrose Rhapsody Murray, Nate Lewis, Marcus Leslie Singleton, Helina Metaferia, and Muna Malik. By starting a nomadic gallery model without a brick and mortar address, the gallery has continued to grow its community outreach through site specific iterations of borrowed space in New York, Los Angeles, Miami, and internationally. Storm has fostered partnerships with various institutions and brands who look to the Superposition program for partnership activations— launching spaces around the world.

Read More About Storm Ascher

In 2023, Storm founded the Hamptons Black Arts Council—a 501(c)3 nonprofit charitable organization based in New York State — which is dedicated to upholding the legacy of Black art institutions on the East End of Long Island. Storm’s development of the Hamptons Black Arts Council focuses on Advocacy, Acquisition Development, and Infrastructure and Operations. Storm’s curatorial work and community involvement through HBAC has increased awareness of Black art organizations through public programming, education, and networking; grown the contemporary collections of artwork by artists of diverse backgrounds through exhibitions and fundraising; and maintained their museum galleries and staff retention through fundraising. Recent exhibitions through The Hamptons Black Arts Council mission include Tariku Shiferaw’s first museum solo show Making Space:One of These Black Boys at the Southampton African American Museum, as well as Spectrum of Echoes, an exhibition in partnership with UBS which included works by Sanford Biggers, Tomashi Jackson, Che Lovelace and more.

Storm worked at various galleries and institutions prior to starting her curatorial program and organizations, such as LAXART under Hamza Walker, David Lewis Gallery, Marciano Foundation, and Spruth Magers. She has curated for the Eastville Museum in Sag Harbor, Phillips New York, Phillips Los Angeles, Southampton African American Museum, UBS Global Art, and OOLITE Arts in Miami.

She is on the Advisory Board of Inversion Art, which invests in and stewards visual artists who are at an inflection point in their careers. She is also on the board of Rose House Residency, an artist incubator program in a Victorian home in Cobleskill, NY, and the Core Committee of The Circuit, a Black arts coalition. She is on the steering committee of the Art Basel Women’s Wealth Summit with Unlocked Foundation and UBS Women’s Wealth Segment, which has a mission to close the gender pay-gap across industries.

Storm was awarded the Alumni Scholarship award at The School of Visual Arts in 2018 for her thesis documentary and paper #gentrify2017 and delivered the valedictorian speech at her graduation from SVA at Radio City Music Hall, along with artists Maya Lin and Milton Glaser. She has contributed extensively as an independent writer and art critic to Cultured Magazine—most notably her profile of artist Wangechi Mutu and curator Claudia Schmuckli for their museum presentation at the Legion of Honor in San Francisco. Other writing contributions include TiltWest, The Brilliance of the Color Black Through the Eyes of Art Collectors, Widewalls, Galerie Lelong, and more. She has been featured in The New York Times, The Los Angeles Times, W Magazine, Hyperallergic, CULTURED, Artsy, The Miami Times and others. She was recently named in The New Generation of Black Women Gallerists by Artsy and the Dan’s Papers Power List of the East End.

About the Speakers

Nadia Estrada

Nadia Estrada is a writer, researcher, and curator based in Los Angeles. As a first-generation Mexican American, she is committed to highlighting underrepresented artists and communities to expand inclusivity in the arts.

Read More About Nadia Estrada

Nadia recently earned her Master’s in Curatorial Practice from USC Roski School of Art & Design and centered her thesis on the myth of memory and its intersections with art and site in Los Angeles. She holds a B.A. in Literature from the University of California, Santa Cruz, and studied at the Université Lumiére Lyon in France. Nadia is currently working on two exhibitions associated with Getty’s PST ART: Art & Science Collide. These include Beatriz da Costa: (un)disciplinary tactics at Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions and We Place Life at the Center at the Vincent Price Art Museum, opening September 2024.

Zoe Lukov

Zoe Lukov is a curator, Emmy-nominated producer, and writer. She develops non-traditional, experimental exhibitions that engage and respond to pressing issues in real time.

Read More About Zoe Lukov

Previously, as chief curator of Faena Art in Miami Beach and Buenos Aires, Lukov organized the first Faena Festival in 2018 This is Not America, and its follow-up in 2019 The Last Supper, in addition to major solo exhibitions by internationally recognized artists throughout the Faena Districts. She is also a founding board member of Desert X, the nonprofit site-specific exhibition based in California, and recently produced a documentary about Desert X 2021 which premiered at the Getty Museum, aired on PBS, and was featured in the Palm Springs International Film Festival, the Riviera International Film Festival, and nominated for an Emmy award. Lukov’s independent curatorial projects such as Fair, an alternative all women non-commercial art fair that took place within a shopping mall, and Holy Water, have been widely lauded in the press and across creative communities. Lukov cut her teeth working with Jeffrey Deitch at MOCA Los Angeles and with Franklin Sirmans on Prospect.3, the New Orleans biennial. She was a 2010/2011 Fulbright Scholar in Colombia and is a graduate of Oberlin College.


Press Releases & Media Coverage

February 23, 2024 – SVA NYC Features
VCS Alumnus Storm Ascher to receive the ArtTable 2024 New Leadership Award at a ceremony in Los Angeles

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