Unapologetic Embrace
Love that refuses to shrink
Some love refuses to shrink for anyone watching.
Unapologetic Embrace holds two figures who hold each other in full view, without apology.
Unapologetic Embrace is a one of one framed work by Harlem artist Corey Wesley, from Unapologetic Faces: The Cost of Being Seen. Hang it where people gather and the room stops looking furnished and starts looking collected.
An emerging name, acquired early. Signed, and archived the day it is placed. There is no second.
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.






