Milo Reice

Milo Reice considers himself a classicist in the same vein as Picasso, a Modernist with classical sensibilities and a deeply engrained reverence for Greco-Roman history and forms. He grew up three blocks from The Met, visiting its glorious halls weekly, while Abstract Expressionism and Pop Art were flowing through the streets of New York. He became what one would call a narrative painter, telling stories that draw parallels between the past and the present. Reice revels in process, making drawings, sketches and studies as improvisational groundwork for his grand, operatic, large-scale paintings. He often incorporates these studies into the finished painting by positioning them in a row along the bottom, similar to the predella of Renaissance altarpieces.