Work on Panel by Mark Westervelt: Yellow Fever

Shadowed face in black outline sits on a patchwork of straw-yellow panels.

This work on panel is by Yellow Fever, 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. Overall, a head drawn in thick black line, with a dark olive face and a cut fringe of hair, sits at center. The ground is made of rectangular panels in buttery yellow and cream, scuffed and speckled. A small monogram marks the lower right. It is 8 inches wide, 1.5 deep and 8 high.

Quietly severe, and stitched into a very sunny quilt.