Work on Panel by Mark Westervelt: Posse

Golden head floats amid black tar-like swirls and tiny watchful faces.

This work on panel is by Mark Westervelt, and is ca. 2014. It is paint on panel. He began using dried paint after drips on a protective plastic sheet struck him as wasteful, and he glued the chips onto his canvas to add texture and found faces in them. Dense black and charcoal swirls cover most of the square, slashed with yellow lines and rusty red. A big ochre head with a swept dark eye sits at right. Smaller faces cluster at left, tucked into the dark. It is 10 inches wide, 1.75 deep and 10 high.

Moody, crowded, and glittering at the edges like a night market.