FIGURATIVELY SPEAKING: A Haleh Mashian Solo Exhibition
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Haleh MashianLean to the light // Shed the pastMixed media on wood panel60" x 60"
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Haleh MashianInner Vibration 1Mixed media on wood panel60" x 60"
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Haleh MashianInner Vibration 2Mixed media on wood panel60" x 60"
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Haleh MashianInner Vibration 3Mixed media on wood panel60" x 60"
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Haleh MashianAwaken 1Mixed media on wood panel60" x 60"
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Haleh MashianAwaken 2Mixed media on wood panel60" x 60"
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Haleh MashianAwaken 3Mixed media on wood panel60" x 60"
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Haleh MashianSophiaMixed media on wood panel60" x 60"
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Haleh MashianA Quiet MomentAcrylic on wood panel60 x 60 inchesCourtesy of Mash GalleryCopyright The Artist
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Haleh MashianSo Many Questions // Only One AnswerMixed media on wood panel48" x 48"
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Haleh MashianDiversionMixed media on wood panel48" x 48"
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Haleh MashianIn The FlowMixed media on wood panel48" x 48"
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Haleh MashianSolaceMixed media on wood panel60" x 60"
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Haleh MashianHopeAcrylic on canvas36" x 42"
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Haleh MashianMagenta 1Acrylic and resin on wood panel30" x 36"
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Haleh MashianMagenta 2Acrylic and resin on wood panel36" x 36"
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Haleh MashianMagenta 3Acrylic and resin on wood panel12" x 12"
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Haleh MashianMagenta 4Acrylic and resin on wood panel30" x 36"
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Haleh MashianMagenta 5Acrylic and resin on wood panel24" x 30"
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Haleh MashianMagenta 6Mixed media on wood panel24" x 30"
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Haleh MashianMagenta 7Acrylic and resin on wood panel30" x 30"
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Haleh MashianMagenta 8Acrylic and resin on wood panel30" x 40"
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Haleh MashianMagenta 9Acrylic and resin on wood panel30" x 30"
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Haleh MashianMagenta 10Acrylic and resin on wood panel12" x 12"
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Haleh MashianMagenta 11Acrylic and resin on canvas36" x 48"
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Haleh MashianMagenta 12Acrylic and resin on wood panel18" x 24"
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Haleh MashianSelf ReflectingAcrylic on canvas30" x 48"
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Haleh MashianColorful ReclineAcrylic on canvas30" x 48"
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Haleh MashianLady in WhiteAcrylic on canvas30" x 48"
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Haleh MashianLady in Chartreuse, 2018Acrylic on canvas30" x 48"
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Haleh MashianStanceAcrylic on canvas30" x 48"
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Haleh MashianLady in Green HatAcrylic on canvas30" x 48"
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Haleh MashianNude Study 1Acrylic on canvas18" x 18"
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Haleh MashianNude Study 2Acrylic on canvas18" x 18"
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Haleh MashianNude Study 3Acrylic on canvas18" x 18"
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Haleh MashianNude Study 4Acrylic on canvas18" x 18"
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Haleh MashianNude Study 5Acrylic on canvas18" x 18"
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Haleh MashianThe Far Distanceacrylic on canvas36"x36"
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Haleh MashianSitting Woman, 2018acrylic on canvas36"x36"
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Haleh MashianThe TwistAcrylic on canvas30" x 42"
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Haleh MashianThe Curveacrylic on canvas36"x36"
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Haleh MashianFace the TruthMixed media on wood panel30" x 40"
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Haleh MashianBallerina in the GardenAcrylic on canvas36" x 36"
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Haleh MashianRest in ColorAcrylic on canvas18" x 36"
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Haleh MashianSex & the City 1Mixed media and image transfer on wood panel25.5" x 25.5"
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Haleh MashianSex & the City 2Mixed media and image transfer on wood panel25.5" x 25.5"
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Haleh MashianSlashAcrylic on canvas36" x 36"
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Haleh MashianWhat's UpAcrylic on canvas10" x 30"
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Haleh MashianNude Study 6Acrylic and resin on canvas12" x 12"
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Haleh MashianPhantom 1Acrylic on canvas36" x 36"
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Haleh MashianPhantom 2Acrylic on canvas36" x 36"
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Haleh MashianYoung at HeartAcrylic on canvas24" x 24"
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Haleh MashianAbout Last Night 1Acrylic on canvas16" x 20"
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Haleh MashianAbout Last Night 2Acrylic on canvas16" x 20"
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Haleh MashianOrange HairAcrylic on canvas18" x 18"
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Haleh MashianI am pregnantAcrylic on canvas18" x 18"
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Haleh MashianLost in a dreamAcrylic on canvas18" x 24"
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Haleh MashianPenseurAcrylic on canvas20" x 24"
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Haleh MashianPink BikiniAcrylic on canvas18" x 18"
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Haleh MashianBlue JeansAcrylic on canvas18" x 18"
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Haleh MashianBlue ChairAcrylic on canvas18" x 24"
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Haleh MashianWhite FaceAcrylic on canvas18" x 18"
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Haleh MashianRed BallerinaAcrylic on canvas18" x 18"
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Haleh MashianDigital Framed WorkDigital Print - Framed and Signed14" x 16"
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This retrospective touches on Haleh Mashian’s 25-year study of the female form. Consistently painting from live models, Mashian’s deftness is in capturing the essence of her subjects beyond the light and shadow of their corporal articulation. Sensuality, sexuality, sureness, the unflinchingly feminine—radiate from each canvas without apology or ambiguity.
This retrospective touches on Haleh Mashian’s 25-year study of the female form. Consistently painting from live models, Mashian’s deftness is in capturing the essence of her subjects beyond the light and shadow of their corporal articulation. Sensuality, sexuality, sureness, the unflinchingly feminine—radiate from each canvas without apology or ambiguity. For her later series, the Abstract Collage, Mashian pushes the boundaries of the positive and negative so that her female subjects are both one and distinct from their surroundings. This series of abstract portraiture introduces collage and dimension as Mashian uses a variety of materials to add layers to the canvas. Glass, beads, tile, gold leaf, paper and other materials add a scintillating geometrica to her figures, as if the viewer is given the opportunity to see each shimmering atom of the woman, as she fragments and reconstitutes. When painting with live models, Mashian is at her most free: “I let the brush guide me. To draw from a live human figure is to be totally in the moment, to get lost in their form, light and texture.” As an artist, Mashian revels in what psychologists call the “flow phenomenon,” where you are completely engulfed in the act of creating—unconcerned with perfection or error. “To see and render the human figure heightens my awareness of the moment and living in the present. One cannot simultaneously be thinking of something else and paint or draw the human form.”
Mashian’s latest pursuit, portray the figure squarely situated in the center of a vast canvas. The small figures, painted within a thick border of resin, are surrounded by life as a sea surging all around them. Mashian describes these works as “life happening in isolation,” because regardless of where we are and what we’re thinking, life evolves and moves on. Reminiscent of John Lennon singing that life happens while you’re making other plans, Mashian implores that life—even in these trying times of the pandemic lockdown—is still meant to be lived: we can still make an art out of it. “These new paintings represent going with the flow,” Mashian affirms. “Yes, these ideas also illustrate one’s dreams, but it’s about realizing that your dream is not against the world. Your dream will materialize in whatever way it needs to.”
From abstract figures to more realistic renderings, the strength of Mashian’s “characters” shines through. Women are depicted as sexual, powerful, and exactly who they are—without having to capitulate to masculinity as a show of strength. These women are not hard-edged or defiant. They are facets of the internal woman—who embodies a fluid grace, an essential femininity, an inner fortitude. Mashian’s Magenta Series employs the immediacy of portraiture and the pop feel of the color magenta to celebrate the internal and external in her woman characters.
Magenta becomes a bridge to her latest work, which fuses the idea of life as an eternal question with the fleetingness of life. As in her Tree series, Mashian mines the recurring theme of life happening as we fret about it. Mashian’s answer: create.
“To me, the joy of painting is to be in the moment. Creativity is the root of all. In order for it to come out, we need to connect to a place of silence and clarity. Let it come to you, and let go of any attachment to the outcome.” Mashian is speaking both as an artist and as an adventuress of the quotidian. “Let yourself loose. The moments those thoughts come in of perfection, it belongs to the ego—not your painting,” she imparts. “You have to work from the moment. That is real freedom.”
The women depicted in Figuratively Speaking incarnate an organic freedom that was always theirs to begin with. Mashian cultivates it to a full bloom on canvas.