A PORTFOLIO BY MEL ODOM
EROTIC FLOWERS
(Blueboy No. 10-Feb/Mar 1977)
It’s altogether rare for an unknown artist to quickly attain acceptance by the incestuous cliques of the New York art scene. In Manhattan, with its fixed demand and overabundant supply of talent, sibling rivalry for exposure is fierce, even among the most successful and established brethren. Yet, after only a year in the city, 26-year-old Mel Odom has his illustrations appearing with increasing frequency in the nation's leading magazines.
Odom's ingratiating quality is his uniqueness. He creates illustrations which depict a richly different viewpoint on sensuality. His drawings delicately unite bodies and plants into sumptuous images which are eerily exotic but never vulgar or ridiculous. The detached manner with which Odom redesigns co-mingling human forms is both realistic in its attention to some details, surrealistic in the ommission of others. Classical in origin and futuristic in feeling, Odom's stylishly controlled fantasies of decadence are imitative of no other.
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