The Breakup
The second love leaves
Everyone knows this moment. Almost no one puts it on a wall.
The Breakup is the second love leaves and the face that has to keep going anyway. Gold running where the tears should be.
The Breakup is a one of one work by Harlem artist Corey Wesley, on archival museum-quality aluminum, from Unapologetic Faces: The Cost of Being Seen. It commands the room and dares anyone in it to look away.
An emerging artist, collected now for a reason. Signed, and archived the day it leaves. There is only one.
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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.
