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From: Doug Odom
http://www.31corp.com/odom_paintings.html is selling this artist work which was founded on stolen , unethical practices.Anyone having contact with Doug Odom should know that when he was selling birdhouses and angels he stoled the ideas from other artist and had 2 men make the items for him then he and Diane Gardner signed Doug,s name.Please do not buy any art from anyone selling Doug's fake art or from Doug himself.
Sent: Wednesday, October 24, 2007 12:15 PM
Subject: EVIDENCE,PLEASE READ ALL ARTICALS.Re: 31 Corp Email Reply
> Last weekend, the co-owners of Fraser Gallery of Bethesda, Md., sat in a
> booth next to Weber's.. They stared at Banks' work for four days. So when
> co-owner F. Lennox Campello checked his e-mail at home on Monday, he found
> a link to an article on Odom's prize in Saturday's Virginian-Pilot.
>
> Campello looked at the picture of Odom surrounded by his work and
> recognized its similarity to Banks' work. He writes and edits an online
> art blog - dcartnews.blogspot.com, which has a story about the
> controversy. He also received another e-mail from an artist who accused
> Odom of appropriating Banks' style.
>
> Campello said that copyright laws regarding the visual arts allow someone
> to mimic another artist's style. Copyright infringement involves exact
> copies, he said. "So you can drip all the paint in the world like Pollock
> did, but you cannot copy one of his paintings."
>
> Doughty, a folk artist who lives on Virginia's Eastern Shore, first
> encountered Odom two years ago at a
>
> Florida art show. When he saw Odom's work, he confronted the artist about
> its similarity to Banks'. Odom told him he had been painting like that
> before Banks.
>
> Doughty was upset to see Odom win at the Boardwalk. "I work very hard to
> make my own style of work. That's what folk art is all about. It's a very
> individual thing. I would never mimic somebody's work.
>
> "It put a real bad taste in people's mouths."
>
> Eitharong, who lives in Orlando, Fla., said he remembered seeing Odom "in
> Florida, a few years ago, doing birdhouses. And he sat right next to me a
> couple of times. Then two years ago, he showed up at an art show in
> Florida with these wonderful paintings," Eitharong said, speaking on his
> cell phone while driving through Iowa on Tuesday.
>
> "This was awesome - from what it used to be, to what it is." At show's
> end, he traded work with Odom. At home, he noticed there were two
> signatures on the piece - "Doug Odom" and an indecipherable squiggle
> beginning with a "B," both in white ink.
I am not trying to be hateful to you,just making sure you know the facts and people are laughing at you cause you are being taken by a fake artist who we all know.
http://content.hamptonroads.com/story.cfm?story=106220&ran=176528
YOU CAN ALSO CHECK WITH GEORGINE CLARK/ALABAMA STATES ARTS COUNCIL
Ever wounder why Charlie Lucas,Woodie Long,Marcia Webber,Lonnie Hollie,Micheal Banks AND OTHER INTERNATIONAL ARTIST NO LONGER HAVE ANYTHING TO DO WITH HIM? HE STOLED HIS IDEAS FOR PAINTING FROM BANKS,EVEN PAINTED OVER A PAINTING OF BANKS AND SIGNED HIS NAME AND GOT COUGH AT IT.Why do you think he is not in the Alabama Year Of The Arts Show?
He is taking you for a ride and building hype about his work by stealing from others.When he was doing the bird houses and angels he had two men make them them Doug and his old girl friend Diane signed Doug,s name to them.Please check out the facts so others will still buy from you and your reputation remains and people witt trust you.
God Bless you and good luck.
