Prem Krishnamurthy BA ’99 was recently featured in ArtNews for his part in curating Cleveland’s FRONT Triennial, whose theme this year is healing. The exhibition, “Oh, Gods of Dust and Rainbows,” was also organized by Art21 chief curator Tina Kukielski.
According to ArtNews, the exhibition “sprawls across Cleveland and the nearby cities of Akron and Oberlin—a region whose primary industry, the exhibition brochure claims, is healing, referring to local organizations like Cleveland Clinic and Alcoholics Anonymous (founded in Akron). The show largely avoids mentioning the sources of our trauma, or including work that scrutinizes what critics call the Wellness Industrial Complex; instead, it engages organizations like Cleveland Clinic as community partners and sources of funding.”
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Photo credit: Jacolby Satterwhite: Dawn, 2022, video installation; at the Cleveland Institute of Art. FIELD STUDIO