Molly Odom Magill


Molly Odom Magill

Molly Odom Magill’s work is rooted in place. An exploration of how our surroundings, particularly the natural world, shape us. Place for Molly means West Texas, and its landscapes which come to represent life, with all its clarity and complexity, questions, and certainties, fitting and not fitting into a place in between. Through color and shape, in particular, Molly’s abstracted landscapes seek to express more than just the flora and fauna to include the choices and pathways to becoming known in a forgotten place and learning to love where we are from and where it pushes us to go.

Molly Odom Magill is an artist living in Dallas, TX. Hailing from West Texas and influenced by the course, rugged, rolling landscapes and big skies, as well as the deep lineage of artists, writers, poets and musicians in her family. Connecting Molly’s rural past in Callahan County with her urban present in Oak Cliff is the origin of the studio she founded in 2018, Cliff and Callahan.

Molly’s formal education in design leads her to explore the interplay of color, form to compose her work to evoke a broader feeling of home. Painting as much from memories people and moments as specific locations or references, the hope is to find an intersection between a place we know and one we can only know, or feel, in our minds.

Molly’s work has been in shows across Texas and Tennessee. She has worked with big brands and philanthropies as an art advisor and artist, art chair and volunteer, from Trademark Properties, Minted, Dallas Galleria, Corgan, HealthWildcatters, to Genesis Womens Shelter and Dwell with Dignity. Her work is primarily in many private collections that span across the United States and Canada, with concentrations in Colorado, North Carolina, California, and of course, Texas.

 

IG: @cliffandcallahan or www.cliffandcallahan.com