SELECTED PUBLICATIONS AND REVIEWS
2019
UNCRAZY, Blake Stimson, Professor of Art History, University Illinois, Chicago
2018
Melissa Chandon: A Vision of American Suburbia, John Seed
2017
American Art Collector, “California Dreaming“, December
American Art Collector, “American Summer“, July
Architectural Digest, May 2, 2017, A Traditional Ski Retreat Where More Is More
2016
ARABELLA: Canadian Art, Architecture & Design, Road Trip, by Lorie Lee Steiner
Huffington Post, Kathy Leonardo, Melissa Chandon’s ‘American Weekend’ Offers Warm Shades of Nostalgia!, July 5, 5:34 pm
LA Art Party, Kathy Leonardo, On View Now: Skidmore Contemporary Art Presents “American Weekend” Featuring the Paintings of Melissa Chandon!
Mutualart, June 25, Melissa Chandon: American Weekend
I Require Art, March 27, 2016, Thinking Outside the Museum
Southern Living, The New Southern Colors, March 2016, page 83
Coastal Living, Spyker, Marisa, Palm Beach Perfect, March 2016, page 54
San Francisco Examiner, Good Day, March 2, 2016
The Art of Painting in the 21st Century, speaker / panelist: Discussion About Painting in the 21st Century, March 12, 20162016 I Require Art, March 27
2016, Thinking Outside the Museum, I Require Art, March 16, 2016
Southern Living, The New Southern Colors, March 2016, page 83, Coastal Living, Spyker, Marisa, Palm Beach Perfect, March 2016, page 54, I Require Art
March 15, 2016, Thinking Outside the Museum, San Francisco Examiner, Good Day, March 2, 2016
The Art of Painting in the 21st Century, speaker / panelist: Discussion About Painting in the 21st Century, March 12, 2016
2014 The San Francisco Examiner, By Anita Katz, Melissa Chandon paintings evoke Ameriica’s past, November 6, 2014
Scott Hernandez-Jason, Director of News and Social Media, “Exhibit Brings Valley Threads Together”, University of California Merced, September 16
Reid Singer, “The First-Ever Palm Springs Art Fair Debuts With Tributes To Judy Chicago and Cheech Marin, Blouin ARTINFO, published: February 16, 2012
Annie Boon, Melissa Chandon: New Perspectives, American Art Collector, October 2010, p 162 – 165
Bonnie Gangelhoff, Best of the West, Southwest Art Magazine, September 2010, p 34
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
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