Mel Odom - Gorgeous!

‘You can immediately identify a Mel Odom artwork. His vision is as sharp as a plastic surgeon’s scalpel, mixing bold, sensual figures with extremely delicate details’. —Luis Venegas Mel Odom — Gorgeous! presents a selection of paintings and drawings shaped by the American artist’s desire, a pageantry of bold, sensual figures and pop superstars cast in Odom’s trademark precision. ‘I drew who I wished I was’, he says, a transplant from the rural South enamoured with the shirtless ‘clones’ of New York’s Christopher Street. Edited by Luis Venegas in collaboration with Odom, this monograph spans the entirety of Odom’s career to date, charting the evolution from his early commissions for Time and Playboy to his most recent works. Odom’s sensual images are accompanied by reflections from the artist himself taken from an interview between Odom and Venegas, a close conversation between friends that reads as a series of tender epiphanies. Memories of first love and acid-soaked discos are weighte