Work on Panel by Mark Westervelt: Loss of Hearing

Dark, shadowed profile emerges from a gray ground of long white drips.

This work on panel is by Mark Westervelt, and is ca. 2014. It is paint on panel. Because the skins are peeled up, anything painted on them is reversed, so he must write text backwards and paint a figure facing right if it is meant to look left. Evidently, a head drawn in charcoal-black strokes turns slightly away, its eye a small white spot. Streaky white and gray vertical marks fill the ground. At the bottom, an earthy olive and ochre band meets the edge. It is 10 inches wide, 1.75 deep and 10 high.

All shadow, no nonsense, and a very good profile.