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July 11 - 13, 2025
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Biography
Lisa Scadron is an American artist creating abstract mixed media paintings and original digital prints.
Growing up, Lisa was exposed to art of all kinds from all over the world. As a native of Tucson, Arizona, she was immersed in Southern Arizona's beautiful and unique Sonoran Desert landscape, which profoundly influenced her internal identity and aesthetic. The Sonoran Desert's color and vastness together with a deeply felt resonance with Georgia O’Keeffe’s art, words and life, shaped how she saw and felt the environment around her. In the intense light and clear creosote-scented air, near the sharp-shaped mountains of blues, greens and purples, and under the expansive sky with the spectacularly saturated sunsets, Lisa learned to visualize her surroundings in terms of shapes, colors and compositions. As a result, some of her paintings look like abstracted landscapes.
Her formal visual arts training was primarily through her public fine arts magnet schooling. Encouraged by her parents and grandfather, a painter, Lisa began oil painting lessons at age eight and has been making art ever since. She earned a Bachelor of Arts in Human Biology with a minor in Art History from Stanford University. She has exhibited artwork in the U.S. and internationally. Her art is part of corporate, hotel and hospital collections in the United States and private collections in the United States, Europe, New Zealand and India.
Trusting the Process
Raised in an intensely intellectual environment, which included art education and exposure to art from all over the world, I was encouraged to develop my artistic skills, but I was not supposed to actually be an artist (except perhaps in retirement, like my grandfather). I was also a competitive child athlete—enduring a career-ending injury that forced me to stop competing at sixteen. Making art became a refuge from the primary parts of my identity—i.e., the straight-A student and the injured athlete—a haven from all-things-cerebral, the intense structure of my daily life, the pervasive chronic pain, and the pressure to always achieve perfection and to win.
Creating art allows me the freedom to not be cerebral. It is about the sensual and simple pleasure of finding out what materials can do and how I can shape them into something beautiful. There is an alchemy that happens if one can only get out of the way and go with the flow of the moment; that magic has its own time and rhythm and requires only the practitioner’s patience, willingness to let go of preconceived images and readiness to improvise.
I explore materials in service of beauty by layering mixed media and iridescent color to find and form depth and texture—creating abstract mixed media paintings that are at once ethereal and earthy. Most of my prints originate from photographs of sections of my paintings that I then digitally transform—they are not reproductions of my paintings, but original digital art printed on aluminum.
To create my paintings, I use acrylic paints, inks, and a wide range of mixed media, such as plaster, burlap and metallic leaf. Applying as many as ten layers on a canvas or panel, I excavate into those layers with palette knives, old kitchen utensils and other tools. Playing with the materials allows me to be present in the moment of making—I use that space to explore “mistakes” and “tangents," navigating the unknown territory of a work in progress. If I am patient enough to trust my creative process, beauty coalesces from the layers of media.
Selected Exhibitions
2025, Art Festival, 22nd Annual Downtown Aspen Art Festival, Howard Alan Events, Aspen, CO
2025, Art Market, Sonoran Arts Festival, Scottsdale, AZ
2025, Exhibition, Aldea Spiritual Community, Tucson, AZ
2025, Group Exhibition, Square Exhibit, Herberger Theater Center, Phoenix, AZ
2025, Group Exhibition, Sunrise Sunset Exhibit, Herberger Theater Center, Phoenix, AZ
2024-2025, Group Exhibition, Tiny Exhibit, Herberger Theater Center, Phoenix, AZ
2024-2025, Group Exhibition, Big Exhibit, Herberger Theater Center, Phoenix, AZ
2024, Art Market, Fall Artisans Market, Tucson Museum of Art, Tucson, AZ
2024, Studio Exhibition, Arts Foundation Tucson/S.AZ Open Studio Tours, Axle Studios, Tucson, AZ
2024-2025, Group Exhibition, the Community Foundation Campus, Tucson, AZ
2024, Group Exhibition, O’Keeffe Exhibit, Herberger Theater Center, Phoenix, AZ
2024, Art Market, Spring Artisans Market, Tucson Museum of Art, Tucson, AZ2023, Art Market, Jen Tough Gallery/AIR Studios, Santa Fe, NM
2023, Group Exhibition, FRESH!: New Works by Arizona Artists, Artists in Arizona, Online Show
2023, Studio Exhibition, Arts Foundation Tucson/S.AZ Open Studio Tours, Axle Studios, Tucson, AZ
2021, Studio Exhibition, Arts Foundation Tucson/S.AZ Open Studio Tours, Axle Studios, Tucson, AZ
2021, Group Exhibition, XSCAPE: Landscapes, Cityscapes and Mindscapes, FOUND:RE Contemporary, Phoenix, AZ
2021, Group Exhibition, You're Not Alone, World Art Day, International Assoc. of Art USA
2021, Group Exhibition, Emergence, Untitled Gallery, Tucson, AZ
2020-2022, Exhibition, CATALYST Collaborative Arts & Maker Space, Tucson, AZ
2020, Studio Exhibition, Arts Foundation Tucson/S.AZ Open Studio Tours, Axle Studios, Tucson, AZ
2020, Group Exhibition, Contemporary Art Society, Copenhagen Showroom, Tucson, AZ
2019, Studio Exhibition, Art Excursion, Axle Studios, Tucson, AZ
2019, Group Exhibition, Small Works Show, Untitled Gallery, Tucson, AZ
2019, Group Exhibition, The Art of Planetary Science, UofA Kuiper Space Sciences, Tucson, AZ
2019, Studio Exhibition, Arts Foundation Tucson/S.AZ Open Studio Tours, Axle Studios, Tucson, AZ
2019, Group Exhibition, Reflections, MRA Associates Community Gallery, Phoenix, AZ
2019, Group Exhibition, Cross Pollination, Visual Arts Gallery, Pima Community College, Tucson, AZ
2019, Three-person Exhibition, Day Dreams, Center Gallery, Tucson International Airport, Tucson, AZ
2018, Studio Exhibition, Art Excursion, Axle Studios, Tucson, AZ
2018, Studio Exhibition, SAACA Open Studio Tours, Axle Studios, Tucson, AZ
2018, Artisan Showcase, Laura Tanzer Atelier, Tucson, AZ
2018, Solo Exhibition, Spaces Imagined, 1Art on Broadway, Tucson, AZ
2018, Group Exhibition, Biennial Bash, Tucson Museum of Art, Tucson, AZ
2017, Studio Exhibition, Art Excursion, Axle Studios, Tucson, AZ
2017, Group Exhibition, Abstract & Contemporary, Roche Tissue Diagnostics, Oro Valley, AZ
2017, Group Exhibition, SAACA Open Studio Tours, CasaBella Fine Art Gallery, Tucson, AZ
2017, Group Exhibition, Glow, Gloria Delson Contemporary Arts Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2017, Group Exhibition, Intentions, Gloria Delson Contemporary Arts Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2015, Group Exhibition, Vignettes, Gloria Delson Contemporary Arts Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2015, Group Exhibition, Imprints, Gloria Delson Contemporary Arts Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2015, Group Exhibition, Point of View, Gloria Delson Contemporary Arts Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2014, Group Exhibition, Melodies, Gloria Delson Contemporary Arts Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2014, Group Exhibition, The Tower Antique Show, J Compton Gallery, Dallas, TX
2014, Group Exhibition, Midwest Art Exhibition/Collector's Eye, J Compton Gallery, Cedar Rapids, IA
2014, Group Exhibition, Objects of Art Santa Fe Exhibition, J Compton Gallery, Santa Fe, NM
2012, Solo Exhibition, Lisa Scadron, The Fine Art Company, Mumbai, INDIA
2011, Group Exhibition, India Art Festival, ArtConcoction Gallery, Mumbai, INDIA
Collections / Awards
Works held in non-profit, corporate and hotel collections in the United States and private collections in the United States, Europe, New Zealand and India.
Arizona Governor’s Arts Awards for outstanding contributions to arts and culture statewide in 2019.
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