1976
Mala Breuer grew up attending classes in painting and drawing from a young age at the California College of Arts and Crafts.
After high school Breuer attended what is now San Francisco Art Institute, where she studied under many notable artists, including Richard Diebenkorn, Clyfford Still, David Park, and Mark Rothko.
Breuer matured as an artist in, and was profoundly affected by, the era of Abstract Expressionism, focusing more on material and application than representation. By the late 1960s, she was pouring water-thinned washes of acrylic paint onto large, wet, stretched, vertical canvases. During an exhibition of those works, a San Francisco gallerist suggested that she head to New York, where abstraction, Minimalism, and Conceptual art were continuing to gain traction. Breuer listened to this advice and set out for New York with intentions of staying only one year — she stayed for eight.
In New York, Breuer began working with a palette knife, making direct, abstract marks with dark colors and with great density. She gained recognition as a significant painter during her time there. In 1984 Breuer moved to northern New Mexico, a landscape that influenced her use of color, light, and more minimal compositions.
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9.77
By Mala Breuer
Located in Phoenix, AZ
Mala Breuer grew up attending classes in painting and drawing from a young age at the California College of Arts and Crafts. After high school she attended the, now, San Francisco A...
Canvas, Acrylic
12.1.98
By Mala Breuer
Located in Phoenix, AZ
acrylic on canvas Mala Breuer grew up attending classes in painting and drawing from a young age at the California College of Arts and Crafts. After high school she attended the, no...
Canvas, Acrylic
6.15.96
By Mala Breuer
Located in Phoenix, AZ
acrylic on gessoed linen Mala Breuer grew up attending classes in painting and drawing from a young age at the California College of Arts and Crafts. After high school she attende...
Gesso, Canvas, Linen, Acrylic
10.15.95
By Mala Breuer
Located in Phoenix, AZ
acrylic on gessoed canvas 1927 - 2017 Mala Breuer grew up attending classes in painting and drawing from a young age at the California College of Arts and Crafts. After high schoo...
Gesso, Canvas, Acrylic
4.4.99
By Mala Breuer
Located in Phoenix, AZ
acrylic on canvas 1927 - 2017 Mala Breuer grew up attending classes in painting and drawing from a young age at the California College of Arts and Crafts. After high school she att...
Canvas, Acrylic
3.21.94
By Mala Breuer
Located in Phoenix, AZ
oil and wax on canvas 1927 - 2017 Mala Breuer grew up attending classes in painting and drawing from a young age at the California College of Arts and Crafts. After high school she...
Canvas, Wax, Oil
La Plonge #23
By William Perehudoff
Located in Toronto, Ontario
William Perehudoff (1918-2013) is one of the most cherished and collected Canadian abstract painters. His work exemplifies how color field painting was expressed in Canada. Like some of his contemporaries, he was encouraged and guided by legendary New York critic Clement Greenberg. Perehudoff spent several summers at the University of Saskatchewan's legendary Emma Lake Artist's Workshop where he worked and studied with Jules Olitski and Kenneth Noland during the 1960s. Perehudoff is known for his simple and exuberant compositions that juxtapose and celebrate color. His series "La Plonge...
Gouache
Untitled #17a
By Charles Miesmer
Located in Fairfield, CT
Miesmer began painting in the open air during the summers in Nantucket. Using a pad of Arches paper as an easel and working out of the back of his pickup truck, the quietude and pea...
Acrylic, Canvas, Paper
La Plonge #10
By William Perehudoff
Located in Westmount, QC
William Perehudoff, Canadian, 1919 – 2013 La Plonge #10 Lithograph 27 x 36.5 in ( sheet ); 21 x 28 in (image) 53.3 x 71.1 cms INSCRIPTIONS signed lower right...
Lithograph
Sans titre, 1965
Located in London, GB
signed and dated 'A. Istrati, 65' (lower left); signed, dated and located 'A Istrati, 1965, Mairie XIV' (on the verso) Provenance Private collection, Paris
Canvas, Oil
Untitled
By Charles Miesmer
Located in Fairfield, CT
Miesmer began painting in the open air during the summers in Nantucket. Using a pad of Arches paper as an easel and working out of the back of his pickup truck, the quietude and pea...
Acrylic, Wood Panel
Untitled
By Charles Miesmer
Located in Fairfield, CT
Miesmer began painting in the open air during the summers in Nantucket. Using a pad of Arches paper as an easel and working out of the back of his pickup truck, the quietude and pea...
Acrylic, Canvas
