Work on Panel by Mark Westervelt: Any Letter Any Number

Face assembled from stamped letters peers out of a pale gray field.

This work on panel is by Mark Westervelt, and is ca. 2014. It is paint on panel. His paint skins are made by painting on plastic and peeling the sheet off, so the side against the plastic is glossy and the side exposed to air is matte. Here, a small head with red-brown hair is covered with tiny printed letters and numbers across the forehead, cheeks and chin. Pale gray ground carries faint gold flecks and scratched marks, with a dull olive strip at left. It is 10 inches wide, 1.75 deep and 10 high.

A portrait made entirely out of fine print.