Currently, Odessa needs to raise enough money to sustain our organization for the remaining months of May, June, and July to ensure that the shows that have been already scheduled can proceed. Our expenses each month are as follows:

• $800 for rent
• $150-$200 for utilities
• $150 for cleaning supplies, toiletries, paint, spackle, and hanging supplies (gallery essentials)

This brings our total monthly expenses to $1,150.00.

Odessa, as stated earlier, has an average of three shows per month, with a gallery rental fee of $100.00 per show.  This brings in a revenue of  roughly $300.00, which is substantially less than our monthly expenses.  Why not raise the rental fee? That is because Odessa aims to be an affordable space for emerging, and often ‘starving’, artists that cannot afford the space rental most other galleries charge.

With enough regular funding, we would be able to eliminate this fee all together, allowing these artists to have this experience for free.

Please consider becoming one of our supporters, because your help is greatly needed right now.  Your contribution will help pay our monthly rent and utilities while allowing us to expand our regular programming and share more of our artists’ work with a larger audience.  You will be guaranteeing a home for experimental and ambitious creative expression in Memphis that quite literally has nowhere else to go in our city.  While our surrounding neighborhood continues to evolve and diversify every week, securing a venue where ambitious art can thrive is more and more vital.

PLEASE CLICK THE LINK BELOW TO SHOW YOUR SUPPORT!

Work by:
Holly Cole
Elisha Gold
James Inscho
David Johnson
Tommy Kha

The phrase, “You are Here,” indicates where we are on a map. Therefore, it is indexical—it points to a relative location.

For one night only, You are Here features the works of Holly Cole, Elisha Gold, James Inscho, David Johnson and Tommy Kha. You are Here exhibits these artists in their own contexts.
Calling for a reflection that much of their backgrounds differ, however, it results in a singular realm contributed by their unique vision.

ODESSA
Friday: April 1, 2011
6P-9P

His current work is rooted in aspects of minimalism and an interest in music. Combining color, shape, and space rythmically patterned progressions are created.

Come by and see Wingo’s work at

Odessa
March 25th
6-9pm.

This show is a dedication to those that memorized button combinations to DESTROY their friends; it is a dedication to needing a key when you could have easily jumped over it. This show is for the cheap computer bosses’ one hit kills and it is dedicated to being sleep deprived for digital glory!

This show is for the ones that know how to blow out the dust in the cartridge just right, without spit.

If you know what up up down down left right left right B A select start means, this show is for you.

CALL FOR ART!!
Exhibit Dates: April 8th
Deadline: April 5th
Title: Press Start
Eligibility: all mediums welcome as long as the subject is related to video games.
Fees: $15 for up to 2 pieces
E-mail: email contact information to: andrade_lana@yahoo.com

Canterucci ended up doing a series of crude American folk art under the guise of William S. Paley, mirroring what many artists have done in the past by creating different bodies of art under a pseudonym. Nick then began to detach himself from these works and push the envelope even further by displaying them on various telephone poles through the Cooper-Young area, although many of them disappeared almost immediately as people continued to take them.

Pyjamarama is the result of that action.

Feb 4th
6-9p
ODESSA

This is a do not miss!