Current & Upcoming Shows
Aldea Art Show
Crystal Bridges Museum Art Fair
crystalbridges.org/calendar/art-fair/
PREVIEW (ticketed) Saturday, October 4 @ 8:30am -10am
Saturday, October 4 @ 10am - 4pm
Sunday, October 5 @ 10am - 4pm
Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art
Art Trail, Great Hall, Lower Parking Area, South Lawn
Open Studio Tours
Friday, November 14 @ 10am - 5pm
Saturday, November 15 @ 10am - 5pm
Sunday, November 16 @ 10am - 5pm
Axle Studios
301 W 4th Street
Tucson, AZ 85705
FREE PARKING in front of the Axle Studios building on 4th St. and on 11th Ave
Biography
Lisa Scadron is an American artist creating abstract mixed media paintings and original digital prints.
She was born, raised, and currently lives in Tucson, Arizona. Growing up immersed in Southern Arizona's beautiful and unique Sonoran Desert landscape profoundly influenced Lisa’s 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, framed 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.
Through extensive international travel as a child, Lisa was exposed to art of all kinds from all over the world. And she frequently witnessed her grandfather, who had taken up painting in his later years, meticulously transforming a photograph from their world travels into a beautifully realistic painting. Lisa’s formal visual arts training was through public fine arts magnet schooling from kindergarten through high school, oil painting lessons from the age of eight to eighteen, and art classes in college. She earned a Bachelor of Arts in Human Biology with a minor in Art History from Stanford University and an Integrative Health Coach certification from Duke Integrative Medicine.
She has exhibited in the U.S. and internationally, with solo exhibitions in Tucson and in Mumbai, India, where she lived for many years. Lisa has been represented by art galleries in Arizona, California, Texas and India. 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.
Trust 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. The intense focus on academics and athletic competition are part of why I gravitated away from the realistic landscapes and portraits I painted from eight to eighteen and moved towards creating abstract work.
Making art allows me the freedom to not be cerebral—it is about the simple and sensory pleasure of finding out what materials can do and how I can mold them into something beautiful. I navigate the unknown territory of a work in progress by playing with the media and following “mistakes” and “tangents.” This allows me to be present in the moment of making and that is when alchemy happens.
I use acrylic paint, ink, pencil, metallic leaf and a wide range of mixed media, from burlap to venetian plaster, sometimes applying as many as ten layers over a period of time to a canvas or panel. I excavate into those layers with palette knives, old kitchen utensils and other tools to find and form depth and texture. In my exploration of materials in service of beauty, I layer mixed media and iridescent color, creating abstract mixed media paintings that are at once ethereal and earthy. This creative process results in a broad range of work that I organize into different painting series.
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 using a dye sublimation process.
Selected Exhibitions
2025, Studio Exhibition, SAACA Open Studio Tours, Axle Studios, Tucson, AZ
2025, Art Festival, Crystal Bridges Museum Art Fair, Bentonville, AR
2025, Group Exhibition, Aldea, Tucson, AZ
2025, Art Festival, 22nd Annual Downtown Aspen Art Festival, Howard Alan Events, Aspen, CO
2025, Art Festival, Sonoran Arts Festival, Scottsdale, AZ
2025, Solo Exhibition, Aldea, 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, AZ
2023, 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