Magenta 11

Haleh Mashian’s “Magenta 11” explores themes of pensiveness and a body at rest. The subject’s posture feels calm, open, and reflective—like someone completely tuned out from the noise around her and fully settled into herself.

The magenta background—a signature in this series—gives the illusion of rain, representing the subject shedding her anxiety. Mashian deliberately leaves the face undefined, which adds to the emotional openness of the piece.

“Magenta 11” sits beautifully at the intersection of abstract art and figurative painting. For those who love contemporary mixed media artwork that explores themes like identity, vulnerability, and transformation, this piece offers a lot to sit with.

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.