ABOUT CAROL ODELL

Trained as an oil painter at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Carol Odell has worked in commercial design, textiles and photography. Her improvisational, non-objective, color expressive works are created in oil, encaustic (beeswax medium) or monotype.  Beginning with a non-representational structure, her paintings are built with an eye to creating an imagined space with non-specific references to the natural world.  Viewers are encouraged to wander through paintings as if visiting a “place” for the first time. The possibilites of color as a stimulant to the human appreciation of art provide limitless inspiration for this artist’s explorations.

She has given workshops at Cape Cod Museum of Art, Truro Center for the Arts/Castle Hill . Provincetown Art Assoc., Creative Arts Center in Chaham and in her Chatham studio.  In 2007, she was Artist in Residence at Cape Cod Community College. She has been a volunteer in the Schools to Careers program as mentor to local high school art students.  She is a member and exhibits with the Printmakers of Cape Cod, the Monotype Guild of New England, and most recently with 21 in Truro. She and her husband, artist Tom Odell have owned and operated Odell Studios Gallery since 1975. Her works are in private, corporate and museum collections.  

SELECTED EXHIBITIONS

Museums

Art Complex Museum, Duxbury, MA*
Attleboro Museum, Attleboro, MA
Cahoon Museum of American Art; Cotuit, MA* 
Cape Cod Museum of Art, Dennis, MA*
Fitchburg Museum, Fitchburg, MA*
Fuller Museum, Brockton, MA
Newport Art Museum, Newport, RI
Provincetown Art Association & Museum, Provincetown, MA

Art Centers

Cambridge Art Association, Cambridge, MA
Cotuit Center for the Arts; Cotuit, MA
Highfield Hall. Falmouth, MA*
Ellison Center, Duxbury, MA
Encaustic Art Institute; Santa Fe, NM
Maryland Hall Center for the Arts; Annapolis, MD*
Mystic Art Association, Mystic, CT
Sharon Arts Center, Peterborough, NH
Silvermine Guild Art Center; New Haven, CT
Southern Vermont Art Center; Manchester, VT*
Truro Center for the Arts, Castle Hill, Truro, MA

Commercial Galleries

Bromfield Gallery, Boston, MA*
Chapman Art Gallery, Mashpee, MA
Hoadley Gallery; Lennox, MA*
L’Attitude Gallery; Boston, MA*
Left Bank Gallery; Orleans, MA*
Left bank Gallery; Wellfleet, MA *
Miller White Fine Art; Dennis, MA*
Red Wing Gallery; Yarmouth Port, MA *
Rice Pollack Gallery; Provincetown, MA*
Shaw Cramer Gallery, Vineyard haven, MA
Swansborough Gallery; Wellfleet, MA*

Educational Galleries

Anderson Gallery, Bridgewater College, Bridgewater, MA*
Cape Cod Conservatory of Art & Music, Barnstable, MA*
Chapel Arts Gallery, St. Anselm’s College, Manchester, NH*
Higgins Gallery, CC Community Coll. Barnstable, MA*
Nada Mason Gallery, NMH School, Northfield, MA*
School of Museum of Fine Arts Boston; Boston, MA
Westfield State University; Westfield, MA

* invitational exhibitions

ARTICLES AND PUBLICATIONS

2016
“Anchor “; Issue 06 fall/winter

2016
Encaustic Art in the Twenty-First Century byAnne Lee and E.; Ashley Rooney

2015
Cape Cod Contemporary Arts / Abstract Art; Deborah Forman

2011
“Paintings Under Pressure”; Debora Forman Art; New England; Jan--Feb.2011

2009
“A Sense Beyond”; Anne Treiger; Cape Cod Life

2008
“Cape Cod Inspirations”; Stephanie Foster; The Cape Codder; 8/22/08

2007
“Painting With Encaustic”; Cape Arts Review

2007
Artscope; Britt Beedenbender; Vol 2 Number 1

2002
Cape Arts Review; “Abstract Art; Alive and Well on Cape Cod”, Elizabeth Winston.