Exhibition

Ronny Quevedo: Every Measure of Zero

7 Mar 2019 – 27 Apr 2019

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Tuesday – Saturday, 11am–6pm and by appointment

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free

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Oregon, United States

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Patterns and marks in Quevedo's mixed media works derive from sporting fields, constellations, indigenous land works and pre-Columbian textiles, all suggestive of shared histories of migration.

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Ronny Quevedo’s solo exhibition features new and recent work exploring the invisibility of marginal cultures and physical labor, as they relate to the artist’s personal history and our larger cultural moment. The exhibition title, Every Measure of Zero, is shared by a series of works on paper that relate to Edouard Glissant’s Poetics of Relation. Quevedo’s series questions the concept of point of origin, suggesting it as a malleable, unfixed position.

Through a rigorous mark-making and embossing process, Quevedo generates a range of surfaces and colors. He derives patterns and marks from sporting fields, gymnasiums, indigenous land works, pre-Columbian textiles and constellations. Traditional and found materials, such as dress maker’s wax paper, pattern paper and spray paint, are combined with gold and silver leaf, metals redolent with meaning in the history of the Americas.

Quevedo addresses issues of marginalization and displacement by focusing on personal memories, social environments and shared histories of migration. Sources as diverse as his move from Ecuador to New York in childhood, his father’s biography as a soccer player, his mother’s profession as a seamstress, the geometric abstraction of Wari textiles, architecture of the Andes and the Nazca lines (a group of ancient geoglyphs in southern Peru) inform his material and visual choices. This results in geometric abstractions that come from the artist’s own questioning of “neutral” sites that ignore the contributions of colonized cultures.

Ronny Quevedo (b. Guayaquil, Ecuador) holds an MFA from the Yale School of Art and BFA from The Cooper Union. Quevedo's work was included in the Whitney Museum’s recent exhibition Pacha, Llaqta, Wasichay: Indigenous Space, Modern Architecture, New Art. His many accolades include a Queens Museum/Jerome Foundation Fellowship for Emerging Artists and A Blade of Grass Fellowship for Socially Engaged Art, as well as residencies at Socrates Sculpture Park; the Core Program at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston and Skowhegan School of Painting & Sculpture, Maine, among others. He is artist in residence at Smack Mellon in New York through summer 2019.

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