THE NewWave BY D IANA M c CLURE A N D G REG HE RBOWY
SUPERPOSITION, THE “NOMADIC” gallery founded by Storm Ascher (BFA 2018 Visual & Critical Studies; see page 56), is one of several recent efforts by SVA alumni to help create a more accessible, equitable and interconnected art world. Here are some others.
Satellite Art Club davidhasselhoff.net
This members-only club in Brooklyn’s Clinton Hill neighborhood hosts exhibitions and performances, sells art and maintains a well-stocked bar and an anarchic, happily rude spirit. Cofounder and artist Brian Andrew Whiteley (MFA 2013 Fine Arts), whose Satellite Art Show (featured in the spring/summer 2020 Journal) takes a similarly iconoclastic approach to the typically staid art fair, started the project with artists Jen Catron, Joseph Latimore and Paul Outlaw. The venue opened last fall and quickly won admiring press from Artnet, Forbes and The New York Times.
De:Formal deformal.com
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The Satellite Art Club, co-founded by SVA alumnus Brian Whiteley (top right, second from left) offers an anarchic, happily rude art venue.
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Image from “The Rise of the Care Machines,” an online De:Formal exhibition; image from a De:Formal residency with Sid and Geri (MFA 2018 Fine Arts).
VISUAL ARTS JOURNAL
Co-founded in 2015 by Vincent Cy Chen and Wednesday Kim (both BFA 2015 Fine Arts), De:Formal curates and promotes critical conversations, exhibitions and interviews both online and offline, as well as monthly virtual residencies. The artist-run platform is focused on contemporary art and makes space for video, performance, installation, sculpture, media art and other forms that are under-recognized in the conventional gallery system.
