Join us for a conversation with artist Ronny Quevedo and Xochitl Gonzalez and Sean Nesselrode Moncada on Saturday, May 16 at 11:00 AM (ET) at ANOTHER SPACE, Chelsea New York. The discussion is organized on the occasion of Portero / Portal Keeper, Quevedo’s new monograph, and brings together Gonzalez and Moncada, both contributors to the publication.
Please RSVP at rsvp@alexandergray.com. The address will be shared upon RSVP. Space is limited and available on a first-come, first-served basis.
Ronny Quevedo lives and works in New York, NY, and was born in Guayaquil, Ecuador. His practice spans installation, drawing, and printmaking, engaging and subverting abstraction, painting, collage, cartography, and sports imagery. His work reconsiders pre- and post-colonial iconographies through questions of identity, emphasizing Indigenous languages of abstraction, their associated labor, and the continuity between contemporary and historical cultural forms.
Xochitl Gonzalez is the New York Times bestselling author of the award-winning novel Olga Dies Dreaming, the Reese’s Book Club Pick Anita de Monte Laughs Last, and her latest novel Last Night in Brooklyn. She is a contributor to The Atlantic, where she was recognized as a 2023 Pulitzer Prize finalist in Commentary. A native Brooklynite and proud public school graduate, Gonzalez holds a BA from Brown University and an MFA from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop.
Sean Nesselrode Moncada is Associate Professor of Theory and History of Art and Design at the Rhode Island School of Design, Providence. His research focuses on the social, ecological, and material stakes of modernisms in the Americas, with an emphasis on abstraction. He is the author of Refined Material: Petroculture and Modernity in Venezuela, which received the ALAA–Arvey Foundation Book Award from the Association for Latin American Art and the Best Book Award in Visual Culture Studies Section from the Latin American Studies Association. His writings have also appeared in Architectural Theory Review, Caiana: Revista de historia del arte y cultura visual del Centro Argentino de Investigadores de Arte, and Trópico Absoluto: Revista de crítica, pensamiento e ideas.
