Complex
Easy to look at, impossible to solve
Easy to look at. Impossible to figure out.
Complex holds the face that refuses to resolve into one clean answer, and dares you to keep looking.
Complex is a one of one work by Harlem artist Corey Wesley, on archival museum-quality aluminum, from the Unapologetic Faces series. On the wall it commands the room, and the space starts to read like a collector's, not a customer's.
Collected early, while the name is still climbing. Signed, and archived on placement. There is no second.
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.






