Work on Panel by Mark Westervelt: Frozen in the Landscape

A pale ghost of a figure stands its ground in a storm of black splatter

This work on panel is by Mark Westervelt, and is ca. 2015. 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. Here, a tall, narrow figure in cream stands upright against a ground of heavy black and white scrubbing. The surface looks scraped and layered, with a few red flecks near the edges. A tiny monogram sits at the lower right corner. It is 10 inches wide, 1.75 deep and 10 high.

Whoever it is, they seem unbothered by the weather.