Mala Breuer 1996 Work on Paper 7" x 7"

Mala Breuer original work on paper owned by Paul Mayer, her only son. The southwest landscape influenced her use of color, light, and Minimalist aesthetics. While her compositional strategy of placing marks within vertical bands remained consistent, her pallet of pale colored brushstrokes of paint and beeswax sparingly spread across white or off-white grounds became standard in her work for the rest of her career. Breuer completed countless watercolors and works paper throughout her practice, each on preceded every large work on canvas. Through watercolor, Breuer could quickly work out her color pallet, use of pattern, and composition before translating it to larger scale. In the last decade of her painting practice she was recognized with awards from the National Endowment for the Arts, SITE Santa Fe, and the Pollock-Krasner Foundation. Breuer lived in New Mexico where she painted for over thirty years then retired from her studio.