Work on Panel by Mark Westervelt: Aura

A mustard face with a tall chin hides beneath a whirl of drifting leaf-like shapes.

This work on panel is by Mark Westervelt, and is ca. 2012. It is paint on panel. Because the skins are peeled up, anything painted on them is reversed, so he must write text backwards and paint a figure facing right if it is meant to look left. A square work on a pale ground streaked in white and rust. A bold mustard-yellow face with dark features and a long neck sits at the bottom center. Brown leaf-shaped marks swirl above like hair or flying seeds. It is 8 inches wide and 8 high.

Windblown, boldly yellow, and entirely unbothered.