Mel Odom belongs to a generation of gay men who experienced the halcyon decade of post-Stonewall, pre-AIDS New York—and the devastation that followed. Dreams for Sale is his Los Angeles debut, presenting never-before-seen drawings and paintings spanning the mid-1970s through the present. Working in graphite, watercolor, and oil, Odom embraces fragility, romance, and artifice as anchors of emotional truth, a tenderly distinct contribution to queer image-making.
