Viewing the latest collection of paintings by Roy Veneracion, one is awed by images that are ostensibly unconventional, seemingly inchoate, puzzling to the mind and eye. Very well, I confess that the aforementioned epithets may also apply to Veneracion’s art, abstraction in the post-modern sense, workings of the hyperactive mind being suddenly stilled, indeed stalled, by an afterthought, a Freudian slip, or simply, the thought process seemingly gone astray. Here is an artist who is thinking a...

The Sunday Times Magazine May 6, 2007 The Filipino Champion   BY REUBEN RAMAS CANETE Artwork by Roy Veneracion                   Of late, abstract paintings have become the watchword among interior decorators and architects doing modern housing and high-rise condominium units. Its noncomplicated subjects and simple compositions allow an ideal design parameter in which color patterns are the primary consideration for their inclusion into a predesigned interior.      ...