Model Divide
The image and the person keeping it up
The line between who you are and who you perform is thinner than it looks.
Model Divide holds the face split between the image and the person keeping it up.
Model Divide is a one of one framed work by Harlem artist Corey Wesley, from the Unapologetic Faces series. Put it where people gather and the space instantly reads like a collector's, not a customer's.
An emerging artist, collected now for a reason. 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.
