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 Project:
C+V: I, II, III, IV, V, VI, VII, VIII, IX X...
In conjunction with the exhibition,
"Powerless in the Mist of the Juggernaut: Five Etchings by Käthe Kollwitz," Exhibition curator and artist, Ernest A. Bryant III, with the Last Physician of Images will present the essay: “Powerless in the Mist of the Juggernaut" — Join zoom lecture
In conjunction with the exhibition,
"Powerless in the Mist of the Juggernaut: Five Etchings by Käthe Kollwitz," artist, Wayne Hodge will present the essay: “Politics and Pathos in the art of Käthe Kollwitz.”
— Join zoom lecture
2026, Powerless In the Mist of the Juggernaut: Etchings by Käthe Kollwitz Curated by Ernest A. Bryant III, for CRITICISM + VALUE. This modest exhibition is the first time artworks by Käthe Kollwitz have been exhibited in Tbilisi Georgia. They arrive here not from a museum vault, but from a personal ‘teaching collection’— objects that have spent the past three years as the subject of conversations with artists and students in America, and now Tbilisi, Georgia. These works have served as inspiration, aesthetic reference, opportunities for close looking, essay production, as primary sources, evidence, provocations and material. That origin matters.
— Press Release
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 Project:
C+V: I, II, III, IV, V, VI, VII, VIII, IX X...