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SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2010              Caldwell Snyder Gallery - San Francisco, CA

2009              John Natsoulas Gallery, Davis, CA
Sacramento International Airport, sponsored by the Sacramento Metropolitan Arts, Sacramento, CA

2008              Selby Fleetwood Gallery, Santa Fe, NM
I Wolk Gallery, St. Helena, CA
J Willott Gallery, Palm Desert, CA

2007              Morris Graves Museum Eureka CA
John Natsoulas Gallery, Davis, CA
Terzian Gallery, Park City, UT

2006              John Natsoulas Gallery, Davis, CA

2000              Soloman Dubnick Gallery, Sacramento, CA

GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2010              Campton Gallery, New York, NY
I Wolk Gallery, St. Helena, CA
Sullivan Goss, Santa Barbara, CA
John Natsoulas Gallery, Davis, CA
Art Hamptons, Cape Cod, MA
San Francisco Fine Art Fair, Francisco, CA
Art Los Angeles Contemporary, Los Angeles, CA
Fine Art Asia, Hong Kong
Contemporary Asian Art Fair, Singapore
 

2009              Morris Graves Museum, Eureka, CA
I Wolk Gallery, St. Helena, CA
John Natsoulas Gallery, Davis, CA
University of California, Davis, Consilience of Art & Science
Selby Fleetwood Gallery, Santa Fe, NM
Sullivan Goss, Santa Barbara, CA
SOFA Chicago

2008              John Natsoulas Gallery, Davis, CA
Selby Fleetwood Gallery, Santa Fe, NM

 2007             Selby Fleetwood Gallery, Santa Fe, NM
John Natsoulas Gallery, Davis, CA
Art Santa Fe - John Natsoulas Gallery, Santa Fe, NM
Exhibition de Paysages du Perche à la Gallerie ď air ď Alan Gauber, Mondoubleau, France

 2006             University of California, Davis, Richard L. Nelson Gallery
John Natsoulas Gallery, Davis, CA
Sanchez Art Center, Pacifica, CA

        2005              John Natsoulas Gallery, Davis, CA

2004              Center for Contemporary Art, Sacramento, CA
John Natsoulas Gallery, Davis, CA

2003              Osceola Gallery, Emeryville, CA 
University of California, Davis, Walter A. Buehler Alumni and Visitors Center

2001              University of California, Davis, Richard L. Nelson Gallery

2000              Sacramento Metropolitan Arts Council, Attorney General

1999              Art Foundry Gallery, Sacramento, CA
Solomon Dubnick Gallery, Sacramento CA
ArtScape West International, San Francisco, CA

        1997              John Natsoulas Gallery, Davis, CA

COLLECTIONS

de Young Museum - Morgan Flagg Collection
Morris Graves Museum
Napa Valley Museum
Gregory Kondos Museum, Sacramento City College
Queen Raina Al Abdullah of Jordan
Chevy Chase
University of California, Davis Medical Center
University of California, Shields Library
Alderwood Business Park, Seattle
Mayor Jan Jones, Los Vegas
Alan Gauber, Mondoubleau, France
Rudd Vineyard and Winery
Woodland Memorial Medical Hospital
Schumaker Oil Collection
Tower Corporation: Russ Solomon
Ward Carry Collection
William Nicholson Collection
Trish and George Vandenburg
Mark and Nancy Gilbert


 

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS AND REVIEWS

Charles Donelan, "Americans at Play at Sullivan Goss", Santa Barbara Independent, July 2010

“Bound for Santa Fe: International Attention”; American Art Collector, August, 2009

“The Story So Far”; American Art Collector, July, 2009, p 188

Melissa Hiatt, “The bigger-is-better set should watch their collective backs, because it seems that Bob Dylan's words have become apt once again: “The times, they are a-changin.'”; Davis Enterprise, July 23, 2009

“Forward Thinking”; American Art Collector, June, 2009, p 140 - 143

Melissa Hart, "Vintage Vistas: A brush with the great American family road trip"; Davis Enterprise, February 19, 2009, p C6

Melissa Hart, "Paul Cezanne Was a Physicist: Art and Science are Two Halves of a Greater Whole"; Davis Enterprise, March 19, 2009, p C6 

Bonnie Gangelhoff, "Under the Desert Sun March is High Season in Palm Desert"; Southwest Art Magazine, March 2009, p 58 -61

Bonnie Gangelhoff, “Edward Hopper meets T. Boone Pickins”, The Artist Magazine, April 4, 2009, http://artistsblog.artistsnetwork.com/default,date,2009-04-06.aspx

Virginia Campbell, “Melissa Chandon's Abstract Realism”; Southwest Art Magazine, May 2008, p 88 – 93, 112-113

Joshua Rose, “Melissa Chandon Roadside America”; American Art Collector, April, 2008 p.149 - 153 

Hollis Walker, “Artist Resurrects and Restores the Icons of Life in the U.S. in the '50s and '60s to Their Original Luster”; Albuquerque Journal, April 11, 2008

Elizabeth Kalfsbeek, “Davis Artist Brings Feeling of the Valley to New Med Center”; Daily Democrat & Davis Enterprise,   May, 22, 2008

Bonnie Gangelhoff, “Best of the West: Bygone Era” Southwest Art Magazine, May, 2007 

Gussie Fauntleroy, “Ten Artist to Watch 2007”; Southwest Art Magazine, January, 2007

Cathleen Ferraro, “Subtraction Adds up to Art”; Inside the City Publications, January, 2007

Suzanne Munich, “Davis artist acknowledged by national magazine”; Davis Enterprise January 2, 2007

Diane Chin Lui, “Varied Valley Visions”; Davis Enterprise,  August 10, 2006

Chrisanne Beckner, “Paint Your Valley”; Sacramento News & Review, September 1, 2005

Victoria Dalkey, “Valleyscapes Paintings show the diversity of North Valley’s Regions”; Sacramento Bee, July 24, 2005, p 45

EDUCATION

Santa Clara University, BA
Art Institute of Boston at Lesley University, MFA candidate (2011)