At Face Value

Curated by Vincent Maxime Daudin

Yuriy Ibragimov, Profile III (2019), oil on wood panel, 16” x 16”

July 14 - August 27, 2022

Curator

About The Show

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Vincent Maxime Daudin
Vincent Maxime Daudin

Vincent Maxime Daudin is a French born, New York based art collector and creative director with over 25 years of expertise in brand positioning, trend forecasting and product development.

He began to work in Christian Lacroix’s Haute Couture studio before he joined Peclers Paris, a style consulting agency. He moved to the United States in 1999 to lead the Trend & Concept department at Victoria’s Secret.

Originally trained in the fields of design and fashion, Vincent Maxime Daudin branches out to the fine art world with his curatorial debut, At Face Value. 

Mixing painting, drawing and photography, this portraiture exhibition focuses on figurative works and the emotional charge that hides behind them, from an enigmatic expression to a compelling gaze.  The show invites viewers to reconnect with human nature and rediscover true faces, mask-free and genuinely expressive, without being questioned or doubted.

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CURATORIAL STATEMENT

The professional world I live in is one of trend forecasting, image making and creative editing. There, subjectivity rules supreme!  Immediate judgement and intuitive convictions dictate what’s in or out!  Similarly, art allows us to profoundly express personal preferences or strong aversions.

Through my Instagram snapshot series #LesInconnusdeVMD, I capture the intimate dialogue between random “gallery people” and the art they are facing.  At Face Value takes this concept a step further while putting an eclectic cast of characters together, sure to engage with the public and create new connections. 

The show title references the multiple layers of “worth” behind every single personality, from their current monetary appraisal to their timelessly emotional quality. Like all of us, they are worthy of being seen, admired, and loved. 

Funny face, long face or poker face, each portrait comes to life through a subtle charcoal contour or a colorful burst of energy.  

Welcome to our fantasy party where sixteen internationally acclaimed artists introduce you to their imaginary friends! I encourage you to experience the show as both an exploratory and introspective journey: get reacquainted with familiar relatives and make unexpected encounters with perfect strangers along the way. All of them are definitely unique and special, just like us! Let their gaze speak to you or feel free to reimagine their story, one that reflects your own mood of the moment. 

 —Vincent Maxime Daudin

Featured Artists

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Ed Valentine
Ed Valentine

Ed Valentin's portraits speak to a contemporary audience about what it is to be a painting while evoking a whisper about beauty and imperfection, brokenness, and resilience.

Storm Tharp
Storm Tharp

Through washes of color and intricate line, characters and expressive moments emerge in the work of Storm Tharp.

Trine Søndergaard
Trine Søndergaard

Trine Søndergaard is a Danish photo-based artist. Her photographic works are marked by a precision and sensibility that co-exist with an investigation of the medium of photography itself, its boundaries and what constitutes an image.

Stefan Sagmeister
Stefan Sagmeister

Stefan Sagmeister is a renowned Austrian-born US based contemporary graphic designer and typographer.

José Luis Puche
José Luis Puche

José Luis Puche (SPAIN, 1976) has a PhD in art history. His career as an artist took off in 2005 when he held his first solo show in his home city.

Martín Palottini
Martín Palottini

Martín Palottini is an Argentinian artist who mainly works in drawing.

Lucy Beecher Nelson
Lucy Beecher Nelson

Lucy Beecher Nelson investigates the social construct of domesticity and her own sense of dislocation within that construct through portraiture and pattern.

Lavely Miller
Lavely Miller

“Lavely Miller paints figures that exist in moments of emotional action.” - Art Martin, Muskegon Museum of Art

Alex Kanevsky
Alex Kanevsky

Virtuoso painter Alex Kanevsky captures movement and time’s constant flow in canvases that resist adherence to a single moment, or even a single reading.

Yuriy Ibragimov
Yuriy Ibragimov

Yuriy Ibragimov's layered images have a rare quality: they simultaneously capture both the complexity and the clarity of life.

Eric Helvie
Eric Helvie

Helvie's work deals directly with the act of seeing, obsessive looking, and optical ambiguity.

Jefferson Hayman
Jefferson Hayman

Jefferson Hayman is an artist whose work explores the themes of nostalgia, common symbols, and memory.

Richard Haines
Richard Haines

To Richard Haines New York City is an endless runway. When he first moved to the city to pursue illustration, he instead found a successful career as a fashion designer.

Machiko Edmondson
Machiko Edmondson

Edmondson is a British artist.
After a 4 year stint in NY, she now lives and works in London where she has been since the early 80s.

Ellen de Meijer
Ellen de Meijer

Ellen de Meijer depicts a pervasive social behavior that she calls Kitsch – with manifestations of wealth, consumerism, and the importance of status and possessions. Kitsch is the lipstick of society.

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