Melissa Chandon ,"Barn with Turquoise and Green," 2020. Acrylic on canvas,48h x 48w in.
Dimmitt Contemporary Art is also just a few weeks from closing “SHIFT,” an exhibition with a title that, like “Fresh and Contemporary,” speaks to looking for a new start after a horrible year. For “SHIFT” Dimmitt assembled works by 15 women. The stylistic breadth on display is great, but there emerges among the pieces a bright cohesion. A wispy melancholy intermingles with nostalgia in Melissa Chandon’s “Barn With Turquoise and Green.” Like her paintings of swimming pools (but never swimmers), the canvas finds a notable mid-20th century mood that counterbalances that era’s optimism with a sense of solitude.
