Complex
Easy to look at, impossible to solve
Easy to look at. Impossible to figure out.
Complex is about a face that refuses to collapse into one clean answer. The longer you look, the less interested it becomes in explaining itself.
Companion work: Complexity lives beside Complex. Complex refuses the clean answer. Complexity puts the layers themselves on display. They approach the same truth from different sides: people are rarely one thing.
This one-of-one work by Harlem artist Corey Wesley is part of Unapologetic Faces. It is signed and documented with a certificate of authenticity.
24x36 wall art. Archival museum-quality aluminum on an MDF back. Scratch and fade resistant, with nothing over the surface. No glass, no acrylic. Ready to hang, French cleat included, floats half an inch off the wall and hangs vertical or horizontal. Signed on the front by Corey Wesley. Signed certificate of authenticity included.
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Corey Wesley
Harlem shaped his practice: the faces on the subway, in recovery rooms, and in the space between performance and collapse. He creates what remains when the face stops performing.
His proprietary mixed-media process combines writing, Photoshop, Illustrator, and modern technology, including AI-assisted tools. Over days or months, he refines symbolism, color, composition, facial structure, and emotional tone until each work carries his recognizable visual language.
The faces in these works are archetypes. They belong to everyone. And no one.
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