Second Floor is a private exhibition space that was started by Sarvia Jasso and Kathryn Garcia. It provides artists a platform to develop, create and exhibit work outside of the traditional gallery framework.
Kathryn Garcia (b. 1978 in Los Angeles) lives and works in New York. She explores sexuality, gender, perversion and identity in her work, while her recent drawings challenge psychoanalysis in relationship to art history. She has exhibited her work in international galleries and institutions that include Gavin Brown Gallery, Kunstverein NY, Second Floor, MOMA-PS1, The Project, and Rivington Arms, all in New York; chime & co., Otero Plassart, Jail Gallery, and LACE all in Los Angeles; BAM/PFA, San Francisco; Don’t Projects, Paris; Candela Gallery in Puerto Rico; and Peres Projects in Berlin.
To view works please visit www.bdydbl.biz or contact her at: kathryn.garcia@gmail.com
Sarvia Jasso is a New York-based curator. She received her master’s degree in Art History from Columbia University. During this time Jasso interned at the Guggenheim Museum, conducting extensive research for Richard Prince’s exhibition catalogue for Spiritual America; this was succeeded by a Curatorial Fellowship at The Kitchen, where she had the opportunity to work on exhibitions such as Just Kick It Till It Breaks.
Since then, Jasso has curated exhibitions such as The Left Hand of Darkness (The Project, NY) and Suddenly…Summer (Venetia Kapernekas, NY), as well as the video and performance event Brooklyn Is Burning (various locations). Recent projects include Uncontrollable Flesh at the Berkeley Art Museum and Screening/ Salon/ Cabaret at the ICA Philadelphia. Upcoming curatorial projects include a group exhibition at Martha Otero Gallery in Los Angeles co-curated with Kathryn Garcia.
For more information, please contact: sarvia.jasso@gmail.com