Work on Panel by Mark Westervelt: Pedigree

Pale, round-eyed head rises on a long neck from a gray-blue haze.

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. Plainly, a cream head with big black eyes, a tiny open mouth and soft curved hair outlines floats on a calm gray-blue ground. A narrow neck widens into a small mottled collar. Pale blue marks edge the top, and a monogram sits at lower right. It is 10 inches wide, 1.75 deep and 10 high.

Mildly astonished, and perfectly calm about it.