Jayme Odgers

"My work is an elaborate typographic conceit. Coming from the world of graphic design, I have long had a love affair with letters, words and typography. Typography can be a first step to making abstract language visual. Ironically, language began as image. Word structure is processed in one hemisphere of the brain and imagery in the other. My work operates in the schism between these two realms” states Jayme Odgers. A recipient of over 100 awards of excellence in design including Gold and Silver Medal Awards and an international silver Typomundus Award for excellence in typography, Odgers was selected along with fourteen world class artists, including David Hockney, Robert Rauschenberg, Roy Lichtenstein and John Baldasari, among others, to do an official poster for the 1984 Olympic Games. His work has been exhibited in the Brooklyn Museum, The San Francisco Museum of Art, Arco Center for the Visual Arts, the Albright-Knox Museum, the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, and the Museo Fortuny in Venice, Italy and is in the permanent collections of the Smithsonian's Cooper-Hewitt Museum in New York City and The White House in Washington, D.C.

Odgers was recently commissioned by the Metropolitan Water District to design two public art fountains for their headquarters (next to Union Station, downtown Los Angeles) and is collected by the likes of film director Shawn Levy, director Allen Jaffe, The California Museum of Design, fashon designer Sue Wong and many others.

This is Jayme's first featured exhibition at Billy Shire Fine Arts.