It must have been ages since Ronald Ventura mounted a show of mostly small works.  We’ve come to associate his astronomical auction prices to equally colossal pieces.  Whether or not he conceptualized his paintings and sculpture for Converging Nature with an eye towards making them accessible to his Manila collectors, I thought that their scale worked very well with the gallery’s space.  I even felt that his bond paper-sized paintings trumped his bigger ones in terms of subject and detail.   Continue reading →