Ron Milewicz's 2005 Exhibition at George Billis Gallery Featured Urban Panoramas with Expressive Color Schemes

Ron Milewicz's exhibition of recent paintings at George Billis Gallery in New York ran from October 4 to 29, 2005. The show included works like 'Citiwide, Summer' (2004) and 'Citiwide, South' (2004), which depicted cityscapes with intense color palettes that evoked urban heat and light. Milewicz's approach used a disciplined binary system of near-complementary or analogous color pairs, creating expressive, non-naturalistic scenes that could verge on the decorative. His large-scale painting 'Citiwide, Late Afternoon' (2005), nearly 11 feet long, featured blues and yellows casting a sulfurous tone over a Manhattan skyline surrounded by elevated train tracks, suggesting mythic urban themes. The artist's studio movements allowed for fresh views of recognizable sites, with exaggerated lateral perspectives emphasizing the tilt of the earth and the instability of urban geometries. While recent paintings incorporated figural references to Greek myths like Laocoon and Icarus, the use of superhero dolls as models was seen as an unconvincing distraction. A review of the exhibition first appeared in the New York Sun on October 6, 2005, and the show was later highlighted as a topical pick from the archives in September 2013 when Milewicz opened a new exhibition, 'The Soul Exceeds Its Circumstances,' at Elizabeth Harris Gallery in Chelsea from September 5 to October 12, 2013, located at 529 West 20th Street, Sixth Floor.