Work on Panel by Mark Westervelt: Exhaust

Copper-orange head on a column neck stands before a white drift and a green scrap.

This work on panel is by Mark Westervelt, and is ca. 2014. It is paint on panel. He began using dried paint after drips on a protective plastic sheet struck him as wasteful, and he glued the chips onto his canvas to add texture and found faces in them. Upfront, a tall head with rust and orange tones, dark eyes and a closed mouth sits on a blocky neck. A speckled green strip points toward its lips from the left. The tan ground has a white band low down and faint scratched marks above. It is 10 inches wide, 1.75 deep and 10 high.

Pensive, upright, and holding something green in its mouth.