Work on Panel by Mark Westervelt: Survivor

Gaunt face with tearlike streaks emerges from a black, mottled surface.

This work on panel is by Mark Westervelt, and is ca. 2014. It is paint on panel. Mark Westervelt is an American painter trained at the Kansas City Art Institute and the University of Chicago, whose work has come to include a variety of mediums over his career. Front and center, a pale gray-white face with dark hollow eyes and long vertical streaks below them rises from a deep black ground. Cream spatter and scraped edges crowd the borders, and blue-gray marks appear at left. It is 10 inches wide, 1.75 deep and 10 high.

Somber and soft-spoken, with plenty of texture to say it.