Break Up to Make Up
The love you leave and return to
The love you leave and keep coming back to. Everyone has one.
Break Up to Make Up holds the ache and the return in the same face, the pull nobody talks about but everybody knows.
Break Up to Make Up is a one of one framed work by Harlem artist Corey Wesley, from the Unapologetic Faces series. Put it where people gather and the space instantly reads like a collector's, not a customer's.
An emerging name, collected early for a reason. Signed, and archived on placement. 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.
