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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. For her later series, the Abstract Collage series, Mashian pushes the boundaries of the positive and negative so that her female subjects are both at one and distinct from their surroundings. This series of abstract portraiture introduces …