MEL ODOM

When my life became very chaotic, my work became very geometric, controlled

MIGUEL FIGUEROA

NEWYORK 40° 46’56.4672” -73° 58’55.3074” APRIL 10TH 2023 “Growing up, I wasn’t aware that there were boundaries between both sexes, and that was hugely freeing for me.” Mel Odom tells me during a quiet and rainy fall afternoon visit to his home and studio. A restricted “X and Y chromosome only” world is not visible in Odom’s work. His subjects and characters are defiant yet whimsical, masculine but feminine and womanly macho. To an untrained eye in the arts, they are, to put it simply, pretty. But underneath that thin veil of loveliness lies a careful and intricate study of styles and references that are etched, sketched, contoured and coloured. Instead of robbing our dreams, Odom shares his, giving his characters life through them. “I was just depicting what I…

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Dazed & Confused (Digital) - 1 Issue, Summer 2023

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