The Menil Collection has commissioned New York-based artist Ronny Quevedo (b. 1981) to create the Menil Drawing Institute’s sixth artwork for its ongoing Wall Drawing Series. This site-specific and monumental drawing will go on view in September 2024.
The Menil Collection's press release follows:
The Menil Collection has commissioned New York-based artist Ronny Quevedo (b. 1981) to create the Menil Drawing Institute’s sixth artwork for its ongoing Wall Drawing Series. This site-specific and monumental drawing will go on view in September 2024.
Quevedo frequently uses drawing, particularly schematic renderings, to explore the visual languages of abstraction, cartography, and sport from across the Americas. He employs diagrammatic tools of orientation and quantification—such as a colonial map, a dress pattern, or the field markings of a soccer pitch—to illuminate connections between ancient Andean traditions and today’s diasporic communities. Born in Guayaquil, Ecuador, and raised in New York, Quevedo is invested in questions of migration, identity, and modernity.
The Wall Drawing Series began in 2018 as part of the Menil Drawing Institute’s commitment to exploring new approaches to the form and language of drawing.
Wall Drawing Series: Ronny Quevedo is curated by Kelly Montana, Assistant Curator, Menil Drawing Institute.