Work on Panel by Mark Westervelt: Brothers Keeper

Scratched white mask-face sits in a dark window amid gray and yellow scrapes.

This work on panel is by Brothers Keeper, 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. Here, a pale face with etched dark lines, wide eyes and a round open mouth is set in a black rectangle. It is 10 inches wide, 1.75 deep and 10 high.

A face that has clearly seen some layers come and go.