FIGURATIVELY

A native of Kansas City, Missouri, Mark Westervelt has been living and practicing  his craft  in Kansas City for over 25 years. Westervelt attended the Kansas City Art Institute, where he received a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in painting in 1990.

After completing  his undergraduate education, Westervelt went on to study 

at the University of Chicago, where he earned a Master of Fine Arts degree also 

in painting.

Mark has displayed his art regionally and nationally, hosting exhibitions in major cities all across the country. His work can be found in corporate and private collections here and in Europe.

Mark now lives and works in Santa Fe New Mexico.

I use dried paint consisting of chips, paint skins, and paint puddles to make my paintings I take the dried paint and re-appropriate it into abstract expressionistic figurative imagery.

All the paint is torn or cut then glued to the wood panel. It is all made with paint that has dried.

I randomly pour or squeeze paint onto plastic sheeting and leave it 

to dry.

I then peel the paint from the sheeting, decide which side to use, 

and cut or tear and build my paintings

The work involves aspects of collage, assemblage, sculpture, appliqué and painting.