06/18/2026
Diagrammatic vinyl lines that recall both dress patterns and gymnasium floors spanned the arched walls of the UAM’s main galleries for Ronny Quevedo’s 2022 solo exhibition “Ronny Quevedo: offside.”
We are closed through Oct 2, 2026, for Phase 2 of our renovations. In the meantime, we are happy to share site-specific projects commissioned by the UAM over the years by artists who indelibly transformed our vision of the museum’s architecture, originally designed by Edward Durell Stone (1902–1978).
Quevedo’s work is inspired by mother’s and father’s respective careers as a seamstress and a professional soccer player. Throughout this exhibition, which included artwork from 2012 to 2021, Quevedo’s family’s emigration from Ecuador to New York served as a catalyst for work reflecting on socio-political issues of migration, Indigenous architecture, and communal spaces.
In the foreground, two rings constructed from milk crates, attached high on the museum’s columns, reference the rings of an Ulama court, a sacred ball game ubiquitous in Mesoamerica and still played today in a modern form.
Image credits:
Installation view of “Ronny Quevedo: offside” (2022), University Art Museum, University at Albany, NY, showing “Ulama, Ule, Olé,” 2012, milk crates, zipties, and shoelaces, dimensions variable; “fuera de lugar,” 2021, vinyl, dimensions variable; and “Ode to Liga Deportiva Guayaquil de Indoor Futbol (Working Class Epistemology),” 2019, enamel and wooden planks on panels, 96 x 144 inches. All works courtesy of the artist and Alexander Gray Associates, New York.
Come visit the museum Oct 3, 2026 when we reopen with three exhibitions: “Howard Schwartzberg: Volume, Surface, Core”; “mosie romney: ash, whistle & redress”; and “Invitation to the Light Factory | Suzan Frecon & Marcella Durand”
