MRA Associates
Reflections Exhibit
Community Gallery
GROUP SHOW DATES
September 9, 2019 - January 10, 2020
RECEPTION
October 17th
@ 5:00 - 7:00pm
LOCATION
MRA Associates Gallery
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Open Studio Tours
Axle Studios
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The Art of Planetary Science
Kuiper Space Sciences
GROUP SHOW DATES
November 15 - 17, 2019
RECEPTION
November 15th
@ 5:00 - 9:00pm
LOCATION
Lunar and Planetary Laboratory
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Art Excursion
Axle Studios
Bio
Encouraged by my parents and grandfather, a painter, I began oil painting lessons at age eight and have been making art ever since. A native of Tucson, Arizona, I have exhibited artwork in the U.S. and internationally, including at the Tucson International Airport, Roche Diagnostics, Tucson Medical Center, galleries and group shows in Dallas, Los Angeles, Santa Fe, Tucson and Mumbai, solo shows in Tucson and Mumbai, and was a selected artist for the 2019 Arizona Governor's Arts Awards. I earned a Bachelor of Arts in Human Biology with a minor in Art History from Stanford University and an Integrative Health Coaching certification from Duke Integrative Medicine. I create paintings and prints in my Tucson studio.
Creative Process
I grew up immersed in Southern Arizona's beautiful Sonoran Desert landscape. The influence of that desert's color and vastness, combined with my early travels around the world, helped me understand that I innately visualize my surroundings, natural or man-made, in terms of shapes, colors and compositions.
Exploring materiality in service of beauty, I configure multiple layers of textures, vivid colors, and iridescent materials into abstract paintings that are at once ethereal and earthy, expressing my visceral connection to the landscapes of the Southwest and to the scapes in my mind. My prints originate from sections of my paintings that I digitally transform. They are not reproductions of my paintings, but original works of art created digitally.
My creative process is an antidote to my tendency to overthink almost everything, as the act of making forces me to be present, favoring what feels right in that instant, instead of insisting on preconceived images and ideas. I follow “mistakes” and “tangents,” using them to navigate the unknown territory of a work in progress. When I play with materials and trust the process, beauty coalesces from the layers of media.
A work of art, for me, can feel immensely satisfying to simply “be” with; it creates its own contained world. Simultaneously, that artwork can evoke real and imagined worlds, forging spaces of possibility.
Selected Exhibitions
2019, Group Exhibition, Art Excursion, Axle Studios, Tucson, AZ
2019, Group Exhibition, The Art of Planetary Science, Kuiper Space Sciences, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ
2019, Group Exhibition, Arts Foundation for Tucson/Southern 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
2019, Governor’s Arts Awards, Artist, Renaissance Phoenix Downtown Hotel, Phoenix, AZ
2018, Group Exhibition, Art Excursion, Axle Studios, Tucson, AZ
2018, Group Exhibition, SAACA Open Studio Tours, Axle Studios, Tucson, AZ
2018, Group Exhibition, Artisan Showcase, Laura Tanzer Atelier, Tucson, AZ
2018, Solo Exhibition, Spaces Imagined, 1Art on Broadway, Tucson, AZ
2018, Group Exhibition, Contemporary Art Society Exhibition, Tucson Museum of Art, Tucson, AZ
2017, Group 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
Works held in non-profit and corporate collections in the United States and private collections in the United States, England, Malta, New Zealand and India.
Contact
lisa (at) lisascadron (dot) com