“Specific Saw Horse”
A solo exhibition of paintings
Pacific Saw Works, 4401 MLK Ave. Oakland, CA
June 28 - July 19, 2025
An excerpt from the exhibition text written by Steuart Pittman
“Milo’s paintings are executed with exceptional clarity but result in dreamlike compositions that provide far more questions than answers. His visual affinities are wide-ranging: brand logos, obscure and forgotten cartoon personalities, musicians and lyrics, numbers and signs. Language and semiotics abound, evoking Baldessari and Kawara and the transformational synthesis of the typed word to the painted word. The meticulous and clinical draftsmanship herein is emboldened by a truly distinct palette, skewing brown and earthly with occasional pops of pure Pantone Color swatches. An auto-biographical thoughline appears and quickly disappears in these works, as Moyer-Battick deftly eschews narrative modalities as soon as they start. In their place, he confronts the viewer and beckons them to make rhyme - often literally - and some form of reason of his acrylic conundrums. A Cold War era inventory of source materials permeates, creating an according sense of unease and conflicting nostalgia. Moyer-Battick composes vivid nocturnes that linger well into the waking day, fleeting and bemusing check-ins with our subconscious.”
“Voices Of The Loon”
2024
Acrylic on unprimed canvas
30 x 26”
“An Orange Flag”
2025
Acrylic on unprimed canvas
31 x 29”
“Orange Ham And Eggs”
2025
Acrylic on unprimed canvas
24 x 30”
“Orange Ham And Eggs - Reprise”
2025
Acrylic on unprimed canvas
14 x 14”
“Modern Sardines”
2025
Acrylic on unprimed canvas
24 x 30”
“Spinach”
2025
Acrylic on unprimed canvas
11 x 40”
“Ganser Syndrome”
2025
Acrylic on unprimed canvas
18 x 18”
“Cumulus Cloud”
2025
Acrylic on unprimed canvas
9 x 56”
“……”
2025
Acrylic on unprimed canvas
29 x 23”
“Photosynthesis, Inverted”
2025
Acrylic on unprimed canvas
30 x 24”
“Liver”
2025
Acrylic on unprimed canvas
11 x 28”
“The Opposite Of Rhyming”
2025
Acrylic on unprimed canvas
37 x 29”
“Half a pound of turkey Ninety pounds of pork”
2025
Acrylic on unprimed canvas
10.5 x 46”
“The Opposite Of Snow”
2025
Acrylic on unprimed canvas
37 x 31”
“OPSTAY”
2025
Acrylic on unprimed canvas
22 x 22”
“Lorem Ipsum”
2025
Acrylic on unprimed canvas
30 x 24”
“Non-fishing”
2025
Acrylic on unprimed canvas
11 x 14”