I’m beginning a new project called “Hal Bastian Presents.....” to feature things that I like in DTLA and wish to support. Things like restaurants, retailers, hotels, events, galleries, venues, residential and commercial real estate and, well, anything that excites me!

It’s all about building community with my network and driving traffic and dollars to businesses that have invested in DTLA. 

Here’s our kickoff event!

Hal Bastian Presents... Mash Gallery

 

"Luster" by Haleh Mashian, curated by Peter Frank

Open House on July 17, 2019 from 6:30pm to 9:00pm, with Hal's remarks at 7:30pm

Light refeshments will be served.

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MASH GALLERY
1325 Palmetto Street in the Arts District

Driving Directions

  • There is free street parking on Palmetto, Santa Fe, and Mateo Street. 
  • Directly across from Mash Gallery on Palmetto are two paid lots at Willow Studios.  As long as they are not filming, these lots are available to visitors.  Cost is usually $10.
  • If these are unavailable, there is always paid parking available in the Mateo Parking Structure at the Southwest corner of Mateo and Palmetto. 1262 Palmetto Street, Los Angeles, CA 90013 is the address. Cost is usually $16.



Contact

Hal Bastian
Hal Bastian Inc
213-440-0242
hal@halbastian.com

 

DTLA's Favorite Tri-Pawd!

 

 

Santa Monica artist Haleh Mashian exhibits LUSTER, a new contemporary collection of action paintings showcasing non-traditional impasto techniques.


 

Haleh Mashian follows up her figural collection, Figurine, with LUSTER, and shares, “LUSTER represents abundance, joy, and the poetry of nature. I added three-dimensional qualities where you might lose yourself in the composition. I wanted the viewer to have the opportunity to explore each piece, much like a Zen moment you may have experienced while taking a walk into the forest appreciating all of her gifts.”


Guests of LUSTER at Mash Gallery, located in the heart of the Los Angeles arts district, will be immersed into an exhibition representing the varied moods of the forest. Haleh’s new collection of work roams in compliment with the bustle of the forest. Each canvas presents thick applications of color, pigment and jeweled surface materials.

 

LUSTER is an artistic journey spontaneously uncovering expressions of abstraction. Haleh Mashian composes her collection over a series of quick actions. Moving around each painting, she applies a variety of dimensional elements onto each surface. Her final compositions hold secrets embellished within thick applications of glitter, gold, and silver. Each painting contributes to Haleh’s style of lyric poetry celebrating the mysteries of the forest.


Writer, poet and active contemporary art contributor Peter Frank is an art critic and curator born in New York and living in Los Angeles. Currently, he is the associate editor of Fabrik magazine and recently contributed, HALEH MASHIAN: SEEING THE FOREST FOR THE TREES, his new essay for LUSTER.

 

“These paintings are sly and alluring in their refusal to be simple or straightforward…
They reaffirm the Impressionists’ and abstractionists’ claim — demonstration, really — that what you see is what you see, it just happens not to be what you’re looking at.” — Peter Frank, May 2019