Work on Panel by Mark Westervelt: Blue in the Face

Face half dissolved into scraps, scratches and a flash of turquoise.

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. Square, scuffed and scraped white ground with a face emerging at center, black brows and eyes above bright turquoise patches. Another dark-lipped fragment sits below. Tape-like strips and scratch marks cross the surface, with a monogram at lower right. It is 8 inches wide, 1.75 deep and 8 high.

Looks like it survived a poster wall and kept its composure.