Work on Panel by Mark Westervelt: Kin

Split composition pairs a red-lipped brown face with a murky black scrawl.

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. Square work divided down the middle. At left, a rust-brown face with thin white eyebrows and bright red lips sits against woven golden strokes. At right, black, gray and ochre slashes crowd around a single eye with a red rim. It is 10 inches wide, 1.75 deep and 10 high.

Two moods, one edge, no apology.