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Marisa J. Futernick | Dirty Dancing: Revisiting the Catskills
March 6 - April 14, 2023
A poster which combines the text, "Do the Watusi" with a color photograph from the 1960s depicting a group of women play Mahjong at a patio table, and invented text.

Marisa J. Futernick, Do The Watusi, 2017, From the series Dirty Dancing, Archival pigment print on Hahnemuhle paper, 36 x 24 inches © Marisa J. Futernick, Courtesy the artist

 

Marisa J. Futernick’s lush, poster-size prints combine old family photographs with invented text to look at the Jewish Catskill resorts of the 1960s. Drawing from personal history while recalling a broader Jewish experience, the works evoke the atmosphere of the now-defunct “Borscht Belt,” famously mythologized in mainstream culture as the setting for the film Dirty Dancing.