Work on Panel by Mark Westervelt: Life Is But a Dream

Pale blue-gray face with a small topknot wears a striped collar like a barcode.

This work on panel is by Mark Westervelt, and is ca. 2014. It is paint on panel. Faces and figures recur in his work as a way to express inner conditions of the self, and he has said he hopes viewers first think wow and then what. Pinkish ground holds a blue-gray head with dark brows, a smudged mustache and a tiny gray figure perched on top with a cream strip. Below, vertical stripes in brown, black and white suggest a robe. Small gray blobs sit at the shoulders. It is 10 inches wide, 1.75 deep and 10 high.

Neat stripes, a hat of questionable origin, perfect poise.