Work on Paper by Mark Westervelt: The Grip, Framed

Hands on hips in a gray suit, and the necktie goes on without a head.

This work on paper is by The Grip, and is ca. 2012. It is paint on paper. 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. A framed collage of a standing figure with hands at the waist, wearing a gray suit cut from printed scraps with a loose dark tie. No head appears above the collar. It is 16 inches wide, 1.5 deep and 18.25 high.

A confident stance without a visible argument.