Burning Desire
Heat that never asked permission
Want this strong does not ask for permission.
Burning Desire holds the heat we spend a lifetime pretending we can control.
Burning Desire is a one of one framed work by Harlem artist Corey Wesley, from the Unapologetic Faces series. Hang it where people gather and the room reads quietly expensive, the way collected spaces do.
An emerging name, collected now 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.
