RAiR | 1990

Mala Breuer

Abstract painter Mala Breuer (1927-2017) was born in Oakland, California. She studied under a scholarship at the San Francisco Art Institute where she learned from notable artists Clyfford Still, Mark Rothko, Richard Diebenkorn and David Park. Mala obtained a BFA in 1966 from the California College of Arts and Crafts, and later a MA in Painting from the San Francisco State University in 1970 where she taught. She worked in color-field from 1968 to 1977 and then in acrylic panel series from 1976 to 1984 while living in New York. In 1984 she moved to New Mexico and worked in oils and beeswax. She solo-exhibited in twenty galleries while living in California, New York and New Mexico. In the last decade of her painting practice, Mala was awarded a visual arts fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts, a SITE Santa Fe award exhibition and a Pollock-Krasner Foundation grant. Invited to Roswell through a mutual friend, she resided here briefly and donated a small abstract painting to the collection. Her work is held in the public collections of the Museum of Fine Arts, Sante Fe and in the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art.