Olan Ventura's Glitched Still Lifes
Olan Ventura's acrylic still lifes remix Dutch painting traditions with vertical bands of digital-looking distortion.
By Art Vault
June 22, 2026 · 1 min read
Images courtesy Olan Ventura
Filipino artist Olan Ventura paints lavish acrylic still lifes that borrow the visual language of 17th-century Dutch painting, then interrupt it with bands of digital-looking distortion.
The appeal is in the collision: flowers, shells, fruit, and insects are rendered with old-master care, while vertical color smears and abrupt drips drag the image into the present tense.
Old Master, New Error
Ventura's glitches feel less like damage than a second kind of brushwork. The distortions tug at grapes, lobsters, roses, and tabletop arrangements until the paintings hover between historical homage and contemporary screen artifact.
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