Presents

No hay de queso, nomas de papa

  by

Ronny Quevedo

No hay de queso, nomas de papa is Ronny Quevedo's response to the Bronx Blue Bedroom Project invitation-to exchange ideas and food.  Ronny's offering is a representation of a dinner table.  A gathering.  A table, set for five.  A drawing that employs heraldic conventions to explore materials and present an image of exchange.

The table, as a simple representation of community, is an extension of his interest in the construction of cultural markers and exposing the conflict between institutional education and vernacular expressions of personal history.  The title references Chespirito, a Mexican TV show, and one of its popular punch lines.  His interpretation looks at the transformation of materials, symbols and objects as forms of cultural reconstruction.  This restyling of visual signs functions as a reclamation.  It presents assimilation as a transformative struggle to counter definitions of identity in mass-culture.


Saturday September 5 - September 28, 2009


Please join us for the opening on Saturday, September 5, 2 - 5pm.

The Bronx Blue Bedroom Project events are made possible with public funds from The Bronx Council on the Arts through the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs Greater New York Development Fund Regrants Program, Bronx borough president Adolfo Carrion, The Bronx Delegation of the City Council, Bx 1 Indie Arts Program and with the generous support of the Mexican Cultural Institute of New York.