Lisa Tubach’s paintbrush dips into ethereal underwater worlds, defined by brilliant, bold-toned sea life. Channeling her zest for protecting tropical ecosystems into painting stunning tableaus, she gives us big strokes and remarkable detail as we enter coral installations, move through grasses and into grottos. Her oil and acrylic paintings on canvas and guaches on paper are informed by her conservation work: immersion with shark conservationists in Belize, coral garden maintenance in Hawaii, invertebrate collection in Puget Sound, reef documentation in the Bahamas and next, perhaps, a trip to Iceland where she wants to “dive into fissures” to examine their geo-thermal state. Tubach’s list of solo and group exhibitions covers the continents and she is represented by the US State Department "Art-in-Embassies" program. Her list of artist residencies is long and distinguished: Bilpin International Ground for Creative Initiatives or BigCi (Australia); Whiteley Center (WA); Hospitalfield Centre for the Arts (Scotland); La Cité Internationale des Arts (France); Vermont Studio Center (VT): and Dorland Mountain Artists' Colony (CA). Tubach’s work is in private, public, and corporate collections. Born in Omaha, Nebraska, Tubach graduated from Macalester College, earned an M.F.A. from Michigan State University, and a certificate in digital video production from New York University. She is Professor of Art at James Madison University's undergraduate and graduate programs, where she teaches color theory and digital video design.