Work on Panel by Mark Westervelt: In the White of the Night

Orange-red face dissolves into pale scribbles on a scratched white ground.

This work on panel is by Mark Westervelt, 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. Thin, translucent orange and red strokes build a worried face with spiky hair at the top. The ground is white and scraped, scattered with tiny yellow and gold flecks and faint grid lines. A monogram sits at lower right. It is 8 inches wide, 1.75 deep and 8 high.

Soft as breath on a window, and just as fleeting.