Lisa Mishler

Lisa Mishler is a prize-winning painter who lives in Tucson, Arizona. She studied
photography and media arts in college and spent 20 years as an interior designer.
While working full time she also found time for taking art classes and painting.
lisa_photoAfter she retired she continued to develop her painting skills and became certified to
teach at The Drawing Studio (TDS). Today she teaches “Abstract Painting” classes at
TDS and for a variety of arts organizations in Arizona.
Lisa’s early years as an artist were influenced by the work of Paul Cezanne, Joan Miro
and Marc Chagall. Her work has evolved over time. As an emerging artist she was
known for her dreamlike watercolors and imaginative landscapes. More recently she
studied intensively with noted Tucson painter, Josh Goldberg and has developed her
own recognizable abstract style on the canvas.
Today she works mostly in acrylics creating abstract, landscape and portrait pieces.
She has become more experimental in this work adding texture using state-of-the-art
mediums and incorporating collage on the canvas. Recent mixed media work, while
mostly acrylic based, includes watercolor, encaustic and even oil paint as part of her
newly evolved experimental approach.Lisa ...

University of Arizona
Pima College
The Drawing Studio
Workshops with Robert Burridge
Studied with Josh Goldberg
Andy Rush
Full-time Artist; teaching at The Drawing Studio in Tucson, Arizona
2005-2007
Abstract Expression classes with Josh Goldberg
2004
One-month art history study tour in Italy

2010
“Small Things Considered” Invitational Show – Davis Dominguez Gallery, Tucson, AZ
2009
Merit Award – Southern Arizona Artist Guild juried Show – Toscana Gallery, Tucson
Best Of Show – Tubac Winter Invitational Show – Manos Gallery, Tubac, AZ
Arizona Edges National Show – Tubac Center of the Arts – Juried by Robert Burridges
Arizona Aqueous XXIII – juried by Christopher Schink, Tubac Center of the Arts, Tubac, AZ
Juried into Manos Art Gallery – Tubac, AZ
2008
Best Of Show – Fall Members Open Exhibit Show, Tubac, AZ – juried by Deanna Thibault
2007
Arizona Aqueous XXII, juried by Elizabeth Yarosz-Ash, February 16-April 1, Tubac, Arizona
2006
Southern Arizona Watercolor Guild Annual show, juried by Don Andrews