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In the "Teardrop" series, Haleh Mashian has created a dense thick texture of paint, its physicality creating a rich sculptural relief. Drips of monochrome and jewel tones flow down the surface, cascading over its ridges and bulges. She has created flat teardrop shapes using molding paste and paint crackle to build up a ridge around each of the shapes and to create smaller teardrops, that bulge and protrude, adding more relief to this complex surface. There is humor and glamour; the rich crags and drips have a funky, engaging charm. There is pathos in just how far the artist went to …