"KC in LA" Featuring artwork selected from Kansas City, MO Curated by Ashley McLean Emenegger Kansas City, MO - home to BBQ and the blues, a former haunt of infamous mafia types; it is a city steeped in legacy. Today the city boasts an impressive collection of prestigious art museums and institutions including the Kemper, Nelson-Atkins, .. More...

Max Miceli: "Hard Icing" March 22 - April 19 , 2008 Like fairytales left outside to rust in the elements, Max Miceli's paintings take on the patina of urban decay and apply them to a hybrid of Pop and Folk art that speaks to the human condition with humor and pathos. More...

David Touster: "Private Pictures" February16 - March 15, 2008 David Touster imagines that at the time the original photos for these works were taken, somebody probably said to somebody, "Nobody else is going to see these, right?" So who is to blame, the one for showing skin or the other for asking them to? More...

Trine Wejp-Olsen and René Vasquez January 12 - February 9, 2008 Both artists imagine a world far away from our reality, a mysterious place more akin to a child's fairytale or myth. Wejp-Olsen, working in paint on canvas and paper, and Vasquez, working in pencil on wood, expose a hidden universe, a wild place where creatures and nature not only co-exist, but become entwined in one another. More...

Joan Tucker: "The Time Is Always Now" Nov. 17 - Dec 15, 2007 The paintings by Joan Tucker recall the work of the great abstract expressionists and colorfield painters, laden with strong gestures and a freedom of expressive emotion. Tucker layers texture and color, building on a hidden subject or idea that lies beneath the abstract forms. More...

Brian Mallman: "Drawings" October 13th - Nov 10th, 2007 Mallman's interpretations of powerful people interacting and communicating in professional and political situations, are at once whimsical and grotesque. He focuses on the postures and gestures, so practiced and controlled, that are used consciously to empower the user in a non-verbal social hierarchy. More...

Group Show: "Anniversary" Sept 8th - Oct 6th, 2007 "Anniversary" at Milo Gallery, is a celebration of the gallery's first year of existence, and featured new work by the artists who exhibited in it. Milo Gallery had an exciting first year and showed strong and complicated work by an incredibly talented group of emerging artists from all over the country and Europe. More...

Jill Sykes and Michelle Stitz: "Verdure" June 30 - July 28, 2007 The exhibit "Verdure" at featuring the work of Jill Sykes and Michelle Stitz, reinforces our desire and passion for the natural world. In a time when nature becomes more precious and undervalued, both artists very uniquely bring into focus the beauty and fragility of what once surrounded us. More...

Dean Styers: "Black & White & Read All Over" May 26 - June 23 2007 The images in Dean Styers paintings may seem at first to be familiar, laden with nostalgia, but they are quickly off-set and complicated by the text which in overlaid on them. An innocent representation of a figure or object takes on an entirely new meaning with a few choice words. What results are paintings which are sometimes cynical, sometimes melancholy, and are always infused with a pop art inspired graphic sensibility More...

Jennifer Martin: "Perfect Illusion" April 21 - May 19, 2007 Intrigued by the glossy and alluring nature of high fashion and beauty advertising, and by society's embrace of this unattainable ideal, Martin has responded with a series of paintings inspired by these images. She simultaneously builds and deconstructs these icons of perfection through the layering of paint, using the original photograph as the starting point, but deviating from it with abandon. More...

Ellene Wundrok and Helena Gullström: "Paintings and Sculptures" March 17 - April 14, 2007 The subtle paintings by Ellene Wundrok capture the broken moments we often experience on the street. She incorporates fleeting thoughts, phrases and words from people she passes and they then permeate her paintings. The layering of her work symbolizes the tactics we use to both hide and reveal our feelings. More...

Steve Gorman: "Learned Helplessness" February 10 - March 10, 2007 Pieced together from the fragments of the chaotic media landscape we all inhabit, Gorman's work is concerned with addressing the lapsed optimism and exhausted future promised by a space age that ended over thirty years ago. More...

Amy Bird: "Califonian Idyll" January 6 - February 3, 2007 Amy Bird's paintings of surfers capture a distinctly Californian idyll. Her paintings of field laborers, while equally specific, are rooted in an entirely different reality. They hang as counterweights to one another, caught and balanced in a dialectic of leisure and labor, of boundless play and bounded toil. More...

JC Jaress: "Gigantic Days" December 2 - December 22, 2006 The paintings by JC Jaress in the solo exhibition "Gigantic Days" at Milo Gallery incorporate the historical figurative and abstract elements of painting with filmic and design conventions. Tightly cropped and compartmentalized, this work utilizes the language of imagery to question our structures of belief. More...

John Patrick Salisbury: "Semi-permeable" October 21 - November 25, 2006 The large scale paintings and assemblages by John Patrick Salisbury attempt to depict the abstractions of life throught the abstraction of painting. The mostly vertical wood panels that he paints on appear to be chaotic and random, but only because that is the stuff of all living things. More...

Mark Schultz: "Fortified With Zebra" September 9 - October 14, 2006 Far from simple collages, Mark Schultz's work tells beautifully intricate and complete stories using nothing but found scraps of printed paper. Bits of shopping bags, religious tracts, packing materials, and personal mail are transformed into fully realized works that are much more than the paper they are printed on. More...