All images © 2009 Jayme Odgers
Jayme Odgers graduated from Los Angeles’ Art Center School with a Bachelors Degree in Art with Great Distinction in 1962.
In 1966 Odgers was awarded a Fulbright scholarship to study in Europe. He has been honored with over 100 awards of excellence in design including Gold and Silver Medal Awards plus an international silver Typomundus Award for excellence in typography. Beginning in 1978 Odgers was instrumental in establishing a new look for California design producing work which was later exhibited at the Museo Fortuny in Venice, Italy.
In 1983, Jayme Odgers was selected along with fourteen ‘world class’ artists, including David Hockney, Robert Rauschenberg, Roy Lichtenstein, Johnathon Borfosky, and John Baldasari, to do an official poster of the 1984 Olympic Games, the XXIIIrd Olympiad, held in Los Angeles. In 1986, Odgers was one of eight international artists commissioned to do a poster commemorating the 100th anniversary of Thieme, the international publishing firm of Switzerland.
His work has been exhibited at the Brooklyn Museum,The San Francisco Museum of Art, Arco Center for the Visual Arts, The Albright Knox Museum and the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, and is in the permanent collection of the Smithsonian’s Cooper-Hewitt Museum in New York City and The White House in Washington, D.C. Jayme’s poster for the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences was included in the Walker Art Center’s landmark show, Posters of The Century: Design of the Avant Garde.
One of his most recent commissions was designing two fountains for The Metropolitan Water District’s Headquarters Building plaza in downtown Los Angeles.