Work on Panel by Mark Westervelt: Blind in One Eye

Bold-eyed face stares from a cream ground splattered with black torn lettering.

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. Centered, a square face in white and gray, with ringed dark eyes and a firm mouth, sits against a cream ground. Black torn-edge marks and letter fragments crowd every side, with a short row of capitals at the top. It is 10 inches wide, 1.75 deep and 10 high.

Gaze steady, background chaotic, nobody blinking.