Love Hurts
Tenderness and damage, one face
Love does not always look like love. Sometimes it looks like this.
Love Hurts holds tenderness and damage in the same face and refuses to choose between them.
Love Hurts is a one of one framed work by Harlem artist Corey Wesley, from Unapologetic Faces: The Cost of Being Seen. On the wall it changes the entire room, the way only real art does.
The name is early. The work is not. Signed, and archived the day it is placed. Only one exists.
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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.
