American Paradox
The dream and its price on one face
The dream and the cost of it, worn on the same face.
American Paradox holds the promise and the betrayal of it together, and refuses to resolve them for you.
American Paradox is a one of one work by Harlem artist Corey Wesley, on archival museum-quality aluminum, from Unapologetic Faces: The Cost of Being Seen. On the wall it takes the room and holds it.
An emerging name, collected now for a reason. Signed, and archived the day it is placed. There is no second.
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Each one of one. Once acquired, it does not return.
Corey Wesley
Corey Wesley is a Harlem artist. His practice was shaped by the faces he studied on the subway, in recovery rooms, in the space between performance and collapse. He creates what remains when the face stops performing.
The inaugural exhibition at Goddard Riverside Community Arts drew 150 in attendance. Corey Wesley curated the show alongside Scott M. Lilly and Ayiana Viviana. Press, collectors, and interior designers responded consistently: breathtaking.
The faces in these works are archetypes, not portraits. They belong to everyone. And no one.
