Awaken 1

Haleh Mashian

Mixed media on wood panel
60″ x 60″

“Awaken 1” by Haleh Mashian is a powerful portrait that captures a moment of deep introspection and transformation. The male figure emerges from a storm-like background, his gaze intense and searching, as if caught between clarity and uncertainty.

Mashian’s use of color enhances the emotional weight of the piece. Warm yellows and reds illuminate one side of the face, while deep blues and purples encroach upon the other, creating a visual push-and-pull between light and shadow, understanding and doubt. The background, filled with gestural strokes of black, white, and blue, feels like an extension of the figure’s inner turmoil—a swirling representation of the journey toward self-discovery. His lips, partially obscured by texture, suggest words left unsaid, reinforcing the sense of contemplation and internal dialogue.

“Awaken 1” speaks to the struggle of breaking through distraction and finding meaning. This piece is a dazzling choice for collectors drawn to contemporary figurative art that explores consciousness, identity, and the search for deeper truth.

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About the Artist

As a painter and creative expressionist, Mashian’s abstract works reveal her appreciation of color theory, compositional form, and studying positive and negative space. Working in mixed media and using various techniques from collage to impasto, a repeated layering and application of paint, Mashian’s dynamic pieces range from smaller artworks that can be arranged together to large-scale paintings. Her large-paneled paintings have been exhibited nationally in Los Angeles, Miami, and are included in private collections in the United States and abroad.