Lisa Scadron

Growing up in Tucson, Arizona, immersed in the magnificent and unique Sonoran Desert landscape, profoundly influenced my internal identity and aesthetic. The Sonoran Desert's color and vastness informed how I saw and felt the environment around me. 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, I learned to visualize my surroundings in terms of shapes, colors and compositions.

I build abstract mixed media paintings by excavating into cumulative layers of acrylic paint, metallic leaf and varied mixed media, like burlap, wire mesh and venetian plaster, to find and form depth and texture. Sometimes applying as many as ten layers over a period of time to a canvas or panel, I use palette knives, old kitchen utensils and other tools to mine these layers for hidden colors and latent elements. I navigate the unknown territory of a work in progress by playing with the materials—exploring “mistakes” and “tangents"—until the media coalesces into works that are at once ethereal and earthy.

Because my process is fundamentally experimental––an exploration of materials in service of beauty––my abstract mixed...

1993-1998, Bachelor of Arts, Human Biology with Minor in Art History, Stanford University, Stanford, CA
1996, Sculpture Class, Stanford University, Stanford, CA
1995, Figure Drawing Class, Pima Community College, Tucson, AZ
1983-1993, Oil Painting Lessons, Instructors Andrea Witte and Nathan Robinson, Tucson, AZ
1980-1989, Art Classes, Tucson Unified School District Fine Arts Magnet Schools, Tucson, AZ

2026, Art Fair, Saatchi Art: The Other Art Fair, Dallas, TX
2025, Art Festival, Tempe Festival of the Arts, Tempe, AZ
2025, Studio Show, Southern AZ Arts Foundation Open Studio Tours, Axle Studios, Tucson, AZ
2025, Art Auction, Fundraiser Gala, Rampy MS Research Foundation, Bentonville, AR
2025, Art Festival, Crystal Bridges Museum Art Fair, Bentonville, AR
2025, Group Show, 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 Show, Aldea, Tucson, AZ
2025, Group Show, Square Exhibit, Herberger Theater, Phoenix, AZ
2025, Group Show, Sunrise Sunset Exhibit, Herberger Theater, Phoenix, AZ
2024-2025, Group Show, Tiny Exhibit, Herberger Theater, Phoenix, AZ
2024-2025, Group Show, Big Exhibit, Herberger Theater, Phoenix, AZ
2024, Art Market, Fall Artisans Market, Tucson Museum of Art, Tucson, AZ
2024, Studio Show, Southern AZ Arts Foundation Open Studio Tours, Axle Studios, Tucson, AZ
2024-2025, Group Show, the Community Foundation Campus, Tucson, AZ
2024, Group Show, O’Keeffe Exhibit, Herberger Theater, Phoenix, AZ
2024, Art Market, Spring Artisans Market, Tucson Museum of Art, Tucson, AZ
2023, Art Market, Jen Tou...