Finding order from chaos, beauty within pain, and hope from despair, the artist Mel Odom's career has spanned several of our generation's most tumultuous cultural decades. His innate ability to process, through his work, the events surrounding him and his life are viscerally transformed into a dream-like state of bliss in his art and in his creation of memorable objects of desire.

RED KISS, original sketch for one of two drawings done for Tom Robbins’ ‘Still Life With Woodpecker’ in PLAYBOY magazine.
1980
8” x 10-3/4” image on 9-3/8” x 11” paper
Pencil on creased and yellowed vellum paper
Recently, while rearranging my studio, I found several large envelopes of pencil drawings on vellum, sketches, concept drawings and ideas for finished work as well and more personal work done for myself. I’m offering a selection of these drawings for sale. They’re all different sizes and all signed.
Shipping and insurance will be in addition to the price.

The continuation of a series of new paintings that pay homage to film noir and the inhabitants of that shadowed, shady world. This one is a little love note from me to Raymond Burr.