More about Lisa Mishler

Education

University of Arizona, Fine Arts, 1965-1968

Pima College, Media Arts, 1987-1991

Bio

From a very young age, Lisa Mishler has been involved in the act of creating. Born in Washington D.C., Lisa moved to Arizona with her family when she was eleven years old. She went on to study liberal and fine arts at the University of Arizona. For the last twelve years, she has worked with well known watercolorist Ellen Fountain and abstract artist Josh Goldberg.

Often approaching her canvas with an empty mind, Lisa takes a zen-like approach to her work. Other times, she journals her ideas in a free flow of consciousness, making a stroke spontaneously, while letting the painting speak to her.

Lisa is an active member of the Southern Arizona Watercolor Guild and teaches abstract painting at The Drawing Studio in Tucson, Arizona. In addition, her work is displayed and kept in the archive collection of the Tucson Historical Society.

In Our Words

Lisa Mishler's abstract paintings are flowing and fluid, denoting an energetic component that is playfully expressive. Her color palettes range from bright and bold to more subdued and neutral. Regardless, there is an inherent luminosity to all of her paintings which adds depth and brings them to life.

Selected Exhibition History

• The Creative Press West Bloomfield, Mi, published in a book 2010
• Arizona Aqueous XXIII Tubac Center Of The Arts, Tubac, AZ 2009
• The Drawing Studio Tucson, Arizona 2009
• Merit Award-Souther Arizona Artist Guild Toscana Gallery, Tucson, AZ 2009
• Best Of Show-Tubac Winter Invitational Show Manos Gallery, Tubac, AZ 2009
• Arizona Edges National Show Tubac Center Of The Arts, Tubac, AZ 2009
• Best Of Show-Fall Members Open Exhibit Show Tubac Center Of The Arts, Tubac, AZ 2008
• Arizona Aqueous National Show XXII Tubac Center Of The Arts, Tubac, AZ 2007

Selected Sales History

• Storm Of Mt Lemon – Acrylic On Canvas – 50'' h x 60'' w – $3,500 – May, 2006
• Angels Wing – Acrylic On Canvas – 36'' h x 36'' w – $1,500 – December, 2007
• Mischief – Acrylic on Wood Panel – 40'' h x 50'' w – $2,500 – April, 2008
• I Am II – Acrylic On Canvas – 40'' h x 36'' w – $1,500 – December, 2008
• Timeless – Acrylic On Canvas – 48'' h x 36'' w – $2,000 – February, 2009
• Desert Forest – Acrylic On Canvas – 40'' h x 32'' w – $3,000 – May, 2009
• Guadalara – Acrylic On Canvas – 38'' h x 28'' w – $1,600 – May, 2009
• Shaman's Dance – Acrylic On Canvas – 36'' h x 48'' w – $2,200 – December, 2009