Eight Artists Open Familiar Forms Into New Worlds on La Cienega
MASH Gallerys group show The Shape of Elsewhere runs through October 24, with painting, collage, street art and fused glass.
La Cienega Boulevard has been Los Angeles gallery country since the 1960s, when Ferus Gallery showed Andy Warhol’s soup cans a few blocks from where MASH Gallery stands today. The boulevard is still the place to see what the city’s artists are thinking, and MASH Gallery’s current group show is a good reason to go look.
The Shape of Elsewhere, on view from September 26 through October 24, 2026, brings together eight artists working across painting, collage, abstraction, figuration, street art and fused glass. The thread connecting them is transformation, how familiar forms open into unexpected worlds. The artists are Rachel Berkowitz, Mark Engel, David Gordon, John Grande, Haleh Mashian, Mike O’Guinn, Brigitte Puschmann and Itaewon.
MASH was founded in 2018 by artist Haleh Mashian, who personally curates every exhibition. In eight years the gallery has shown more than 300 artists, building a reputation as a bridge between global artists and the Los Angeles art community. Beyond the exhibition calendar, the gallery works with collectors and design professionals placing work in homes, offices and hospitality spaces, and takes on custom commissions matched to a client’s scale, palette and vision.
How familiar forms open into unexpected worlds.
The gallery sits at 812 N. La Cienega Blvd, in the heart of the district. Hours are Tuesday through Friday, 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. Admission is free. La Cienega’s gallery row rewards a slow walk, and with the show closing October 24, the next two weeks are the time to see it.
The former Ferus Gallery building, pictured above, still stands on La Cienega as a reminder of the boulevard’s history. Warhol showed there in 1962. Sixty-four years later, the street is still where Los Angeles comes to see what is next.
