Whitestone Ginza New Gallery presents Ronald Ventura’s latest exhibition titled, “Grey Avenue.”

Ventura previously mounted a large-scale exhibit at Karuizawa New Art Museum in 2021 billed as “An Introspective.” For the artist, it is essential to reconsider and reconstruct his creations, regarding them as part of an ongoing process. There is no such thing as “past works,” since everything is part of a visual journey, a ceaseless undertaking. Compositions are constantly re-contextualized and treated like the ever-changing self or living things shedding their previous “skin” to adapt to new environments. What the artist has explored in series such as “Zoomanities” and “Humanime” — animal-human hybrids entangled in geometric cocoons, as well as a cavalcade of boats, birds of prey, fiestas, medical records and clipboards, traffic signs and quarantine colors signifying restrictions amid pandemics — are revisited every now and then to be put under a new and stranger light.