Melissa Chandon - Awareness
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Melissa Chandon is an American painter based in California. She is known for bright, pop-inspired paintings that simplify everyday American scenes into bold, graphic compositions. Inspired by family road trips as a child, Chandon's work often focuses on swimming pools, motels, roadside architecture, vintage cars, and landscapes, giving the familiar places a sunlight and nostalgic feeling. Her often simplified works aim to give a nod to the power of modesty and the value of silence, emphasizing color, shape, and light of ordinary, mundane scenes.
Chandon's work:
CV (ten most recent solo exhibitions):
2024, New Works, Texas, US
2024, The Obsession of Art, Bergen, Netherlands
2024, Tesande Gallery, California, US
2023, The Obsession of Art, Bergen, Netherlands
2022, Caldwell Snyder Gallery, California, US
2022, The Obsession of Art, Bergen, Netherlands
2019, Caldwell Snyder Gallery, California, US
2018, Skidmore Contemporary Gallery, California, US
2017, J Willot Gallery, California, US
2017, Caldwell Snyder Gallery, California, US
I really enjoy the simplicity of Chandon's work. Her use of clean lines and edges is really interesting, and even in her work that may be more blurred the edges can still be found. I also really love her color palette, and she tends to stick with similar colors and shades throughout the majority of her work. Having the consistent colors makes her work more cohesive and adds to her theme of nostalgia and the idea of growing up in California. In her water works, I really love that she has a mix of water that is moving and reflective as well as water that is completely still and almost non-existent. In the future I want to try making something like her work Post Modern Pool with Diving Board; it is more simplistic and the water is there but not overshadowing the rest of the elements of the piece. I also am a fan of the cleanliness of that piece and that is something I might want to experiment with.
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