2025 SMFA Art Sale
- December 05, 2025 - December 07, 2025
- Exhibition
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- Artwork
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- Artists
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Nikiya Wesley x
I am drawn to the stories we think we know; the ones told so often that their edges have worn smooth. Greco-Roman mythology and history are filled with them, shaped and reshaped by those in power and the hands of time. My work lingers in the spaces between versions, in the questions left unanswered. I focus on female figures, not as symbols or cautionary tales, but as people with their own weight, their own emotions. Through 3D models, I try to capture a single moment, one glance, one breath, where everything shifts. Medusa, not as a monster, but as a woman who was wronged. Athena, not just a goddess, but someone with regrets. My research guides me, but emotion drives me. I want to make people pause, to see something familiar in a new light.