Work on Panel by Mark Westervelt: Almost a Smile

Worried head with dark swept hair and pink-red lips floats on a streaky 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. The face is drawn in dark line with heavy brows, a long nose and a swoop of black hair. Lips are red and slightly pursed within a pink patch. The surrounding ground is scuffed white with traces of red and brown. It is 10 inches wide, 1.75 deep and 10 high.

Concerned about something, and not telling.