Golden Love
Tenderness rendered like treasure
Love this rare is worth more than the gold it is made of.
Golden Love holds tenderness rendered like treasure, because that is what it is.
Golden Love 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 makes the space feel quietly expensive, and impossible to forget.
Collected early, while the name is still climbing. Signed, and archived on placement. Only one exists.
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.






