Work on Panel by Mark Westervelt: Better to Hear With

Solemn head with pinkish ears and a boxed-in mouth gazes straight ahead.

This work on panel is by Mark Westervelt, and is ca. 2014. It is paint on panel. Mark Westervelt is an American painter trained at the Kansas City Art Institute and the University of Chicago, whose work has come to include a variety of mediums over his career. Black line draws a narrow head with swept hair, pale eyes, and rosy ears. A neat rectangular patch of red lips floats at the bottom of the face. Thin neck lines drop away below on a scuffed white ground. It is 10 inches wide, 1.75 deep and 10 high.

A mouth cut from another conversation entirely.