ABOUT THE WORK

Unlike many artists who are faced with the constant challenge of being stereotyped within the creative paths they choose, Ronald Ventura takes on the task of confronting it through his diverse art, and makes some powerful visual statements with stunning directness. With his new ways of seeing, Ventura exerts his influence in overturning notions on presenting the human body, or formal problems that once dominated modern painting, or conceptions of the ideal as against the products of academic classicism of a still earlier age. The incredible depth of realism he applies to his figures generates a haunting view of a once familiar milieu now beset with layers of associations with other worlds. His paintings and sculptures, seemingly products of parody and juxtaposition, are in fact, uncompromising manifestations of the mind’s reality struggling with the ambiguities of history and culture. They present an architecture of the mind, moving back and forth between the tamed surface of reality and the deep recesses of fantasy.