CRITICISM & VALUE
was founded and produced as part of a research fellowship at Rhode Island School of Design, between 2020–2022 it began by exploring the question: “What would the artwork have to say if it could speak verbally?” It has developed from that question, to collaborative performance project — one that allows a space of creative collaboration, play, and questioning not possible in conventional artist talks. It’s experimental; there are comments and questions that might arise from behind a mask that may not arise face to face: from behind an Ife bronze sculpture, an Elizabeth Catlett lithographic print, or the face of James Baldwin or Horace Pippin, to list a few examples. There is power in images, and the image of the deceased — “the authority in death” — speaking to and about the work of a living artist makes what is said resonate differently with both artist and audience, while opening a space of experimental play.

2020—ongoing Projects:
C+V: I, II, III, IV, V, VI, VII, VIII, IX

2026, CRITICISM +VALUE, Experimental Pedagogy & Contemporary Art Space #1 & #2; a collaboration with and TIMM Architecture, and the Tbilisi State Academy of Arts.

The collaboration between Criticism + Value, TIMM Architecture, and the Tbilisi State Academy of Arts brings exhibitions to TIMM Architecture's meeting room at Kote Afkhazi 18/2 in Tbilisi. This partnership brings together distinct but complementary practices: C+V's experimental approach to pedagogy and contemporary art, and TIMM Architecture's design and research-oriented international network, and The Tbilisi State Academy of Arts' institutional structure, and students, to create a space that operates at the intersection of art, architecture, critical thought, and education. The shared venue is central to the collaboration's intent: by situating the gallery within an architectural firm's space, the project fosters ongoing dialogue about the inherent relationship between art and architecture.

2024, CRITICISM & VALUE was proposed and accepted as an embedded course, at the Silver Art Projects art residency

2021, Criticism + Value I, II
First and second lecture in the Criticism + Value project. These were the first two lectures delivered by The Last Physician of Images to an audience of students and faculty at the Rhode Island School of Design in 2021.

2024, The Affective Properties of Play
The Last Physician of Images invited to deliver a live lecture at Colby College.

CRITICISM & VALUE
was founded and produced as part of a research fellowship at Rhode Island School of Design, between 2020–2022 it began by exploring the question: “What would the artwork have to say if it could speak verbally?” It has developed from that question, to collaborative performance project — one that allows a space of creative collaboration, play, and questioning not possible in conventional artist talks. It’s experimental; there are comments and questions that might arise from behind a mask that may not arise face to face: from behind an Ife bronze sculpture, an Elizabeth Catlett lithographic print, or the face of James Baldwin or Horace Pippin, to list a few examples. There is power in images, and the image of the deceased — “the authority in death” — speaking to and about the work of a living artist makes what is said resonate differently with both artist and audience, while opening a space of experimental play.

2020—ongoing Projects:
C+V: I, II, III, IV, V, VI, VII, VIII, IX