The Cost of Being Seen
Visibility, and the receipt for it
Being seen was never free. This is the receipt.
The Cost of Being Seen holds what visibility takes and what it gives back, in the same unflinching face.
The Cost of Being Seen is a one of one work by Harlem artist Corey Wesley, on archival museum-quality aluminum, the work the series is named for.
Acquired and archived into a private collection. One of one, permanently removed from availability.
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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.
