Solo exhibition
Away in the Catskills: Summers, Sour Cream, and Dirty Dancing

May 1–August 31, 2025
Public opening event: Wednesday, April 30, 7–9pm
Artist gallery talk: Thursday, May 1, 2pm

Skirball Cultural Center
2701 N. Sepulveda Blvd.
Los Angeles, CA 90049

An evocative, poignant, and joyful exploration of belonging, assimilation, and loss

Marisa J. Futernick’s first solo exhibition at a US museum features works incorporating photography, text, video, and installation, exploring inherited and imagined memories of Jewish resorts in New York’s Catskill Mountains. Going beyond the familiar collective nostalgia, the works in the exhibition consider the more complicated aspects of this place, both past and present, and its reflection of generational changes, especially for women. Weaving together family history, fiction, and archival and field research, this meditative body of work provokes questions about leisure, loss, and what it means to live in diaspora. Curated by Skirball Chief Curator Cate Thurston.

A series of talks and events accompany the exhibition, including a late-night Catskills celebration on Friday, June 6—find out more at skirball.org