Work on Paper by Mark Westervelt: Ape-ish

Boxy figure in a blue-gray smock has a head wrapped in gold.

This work on paper is by Mark Westervelt, 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. Upfront, a rectangular body of blue-gray and white scraps is streaked with black. Two dark arms hang at the sides under a golden hooded head. It is 6 inches wide and 7 high.

Neat, boxy, and wearing the only gold in the room.