bio=To stand in front of one of Sean Odell's wall-sized canvases is to be engulfed in a paradox of unease and beauty. The figurative in the work silently insinuates the complexity and frailty of the viewer's own mortality; it demands the viewer look under the surface at the machinery of one's own flesh. The iconic characters mime a dirge to the beauty and terror that is the soft molecular dance of existence. The paint plays on the surface of the canvas, mimicking three-dimensional space, echoing the daisy-chain of matter's interwoven patterns.

Science is at once closer and farther away than ever from finding the ghost in the shell. Technology is giving birth to the Frankenstein Paradigm: the machinery of existence is being toyed with, the lexicon and poetry of our animation tampered with - like bold hackers we are reprogramming, enhancing and searching for a yet unnamed grail. Sean's painting taps into this aspect of our time, and mixes it with his love for the silent films and aesthetic of the 1920's. 

Notoriously aloof and hermitic, Sean's gallery exhibitions have been few and far between. The last showing was at Galerie Morpheus in Beverly Hills, home to several European Surrealists and the American representation for the art of H.R. Giger. Completing only a small number of pieces a year, there is now a waiting list to own one. Rocker and filmmaker Rob Zombie owns one. Bass player Chris Chaney (Alanis Morissette and Jane's Addiction) owns two. Record producer Scott Humphrey (Tommy Lee, Ozzy Osbourne, Rob Zombie) has several. The late Steve Richards (former CEO of No Name Records) owned several.  World champion wake boarder Darin Shapiro owns one. Currently, Sean is working on a piece for Joe Elliott of Def Leppard.