Wesley is an Academy Award winning artist who abandoned the film industry in 2003 to focus on his own art. His home and studio overlook the national forest from a ridgeline in Western North Carolina.
"My sculpture looks to reinvigorate the figure as a modern mode of expression, a mode that speaks to everyone (not just those familiar with the Brancusi and Duchamp-inspired movements). I aim to translate the experience of what it is to be a human animal in a secular society-exploring themes that are basic and primal as well as emotionally complex. My sculpture is dynamic and passionate but not always physically accurate, producing movement of line, form, light and spatial relations. The clay is the form in motion, not necessarily the anatomy of the figure."