Golden Temptation II
What's left when the gold is gone.
Gold gets you there. It does not tell you what happens after.
Golden Temptation II sits on the other side of the chase, in the quiet that comes when the thing you wanted stops being enough. Where the first work held one perspective, this one holds two. A man and a woman, both marked by the same hunger, neither one spared it.
The eyes are withheld on purpose. When someone is starving for fame, for fortune, the hunger doesn't show first in the eyes. It shows in the mouth. This work holds it there, in the lips, where wanting lives before it becomes anything else.
Golden Temptation II is a one of one work by Harlem artist Corey Wesley, on archival museum-quality aluminum, from the Unapologetic Faces series. Acquired now, while the window is open. Signed, and archived on placement. Once it is gone, it is gone.
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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.
