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
