Work on Panel by Mark Westervelt: Ghost Writer

Bald white bust stands among rusty hook shapes on a cool gray background.

This work on panel is by Ghost Writer, 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. Framed in view, a pale bust with wide-set dark eyes, small red lips and a broad chest is centered in a scraped gray and cream ground. Red-brown curled marks scatter across the surface like brush letters, with yellowish patches at the edges. It is 10 inches wide, 1.75 deep and 10 high.

Statuesque and a little bewildered by all that decoration.