Episode No. 680 of The Modern Art Notes Podcast features artist Ronny Quevedo and curator Jillian Kruse.

The Menil Drawing Institute is presenting “Wall Drawing Series: Ronny Quevedo” through August 2025. The work on view, titled C A R A A C A R A, is a site-specific drawing that explores the relationship between origin, transfer, and translation. Each of the drawing’s three panels reveals a different step in Quevedo’s process. The presentation was curated by Kelly Montana.

Quevedo has had a solo show at the Queens Museum, New York. He’s been included in group shows at the Buffalo AKG Museum, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, and more.

Bodies of Quevedo’s work discussed on the program include:

• Every Measure of Zero (2018);
• Field Drawings (2019);
• los desaparecidos (2018); and
• Traces of a Seamstress (2019).

Kruse is the curator of “Imagination in the Age of Reason” at the Cleveland Museum of Art. The exhibition examines how Enlightenment artists presented fantasy and folly in works on paper during an era obsessed with truth and knowledge. It is on view through March 2, 2025.

Series of works discussed on the program:

• Giovanni Battista Piranesi’s “Imaginary Prisons;” and
• Benigno Bossi after Ennemond Alexandre Petitot, Mascarade à la Grecque.

Instagram: Ronny Quevedo, Tyler Green.

Air date: November 14, 2024.