Work on Panel by Mark Westervelt: Dazed

Worried, red-lined face stares from a taupe field under a streaked brown stripe.

This work on panel is by Mark Westervelt, and is ca. 2014. It is paint on panel. Because the skins are peeled up, anything painted on them is reversed, so he must write text backwards and paint a figure facing right if it is meant to look left. Square work on a flat gray-taupe ground, with a loosely brushed face in white and red-brown, heavy dark eyes and a drawn mouth. A streaked brown band runs across the top edge. Small drips and flecks scatter around. It is 8 inches wide, 1.75 deep and 8 high.

Anxious, expressive, and entirely unbothered by tidy edges.