Ronny Quevedo's one-person exhibition, no hay medio tiempo / there is no halftime, organized by the Queens Museum, NY.
The institution's press release follows:
no hay medio tiempo / there is no halftime features site-specific and cross-disciplinary works that incorporate wide-ranging references from sports field diagrams to Andean heraldic codes. The exhibition’s centerpiece, no hay medio tiempo / there is no halftime (after Glissant and Quevedo), 2017, is a polychromatic line drawing executed directly on the 2,700 square foot expanse of the Museum’s atrium. The work’s dynamic composition echoes the Museum’s immediate environment of Flushing Meadows Corona Park, where various ball games are played daily by local immigrant communities, the work is composed of fragmented diagrams of basketball, soccer, volleyball, and handball courts.
Having moved from Ecuador to New York City in the ‘80s, Quevedo’s work interlaces autobiographical and sociological insights in a reflection on his bicultural upbringing and his father’s soccer career as player and referee in both places. Taken together, the installation renders the disquiet, yet poetic and exuberant state of peoples and cultures in global flux through a materially syncretized and conceptually complex body of work.
As one of three recipients of the 2016-2017 Queens Museum/Jerome Foundation Fellowship for Emerging Artists, Ronny Quevedo has spent the past year working closely with curators and other staff members to optimize opportunities to expand his practice. Quevedo, along with Sable Smith, and Julia Weist, whose works will be on view in Fall 2017, were selected by a panel that included Michael Conner (New Museum, New York), Lydia Yee (The Whitechapel Gallery, London), and Hitomi Iwasaki, Director of Exhibitions/Curator, Queens Museum.