Spring 2024 Exhibitions, Gallery Talks, and Events
All exhibitions & events are free and open to the public
Gallery Hours
Monday through Thursday: 8 am – 8 pm
Friday: 8 am – 5 pm
Open during Theatre at the Mount performances
Closed on all MA State Holidays
Jason Kotoch
Between hello and goodbye.
Between the mountain and sky.
September 4 – October 5
Gallery Talk: Sept. 26, at 4 pm Reception: Sept 26, 4:30 – 6:30 pm
Artist Statement
“Between hello and goodbye—Between the mountain and the sky is a phrase my Jido whispered into my ear in a dream I had the night before he died. Or maybe that was how my grandmother described the perfect ratio of milk to flour while teaching me how to make her drop biscuit recipe once when I was eleven. Then again, I think it might have been the way the music felt during the motorcycle scene at the end of Kiarostami’s film, Close Up. This exhibit attempts to point to things unsaid, or maybe even unsayable, from the perspective of a second generation American who grew up floating between two cultures, two cuisines, two languages. It is an attempt to describe the experience of watching cultural assimilation exercise its power on my family in real time.”
Jason Kotoch is an intermedia artist working in still and moving images, performance, and sound art. Jason grew up in a working class Lebanese American family and his work explores cultural assimilation, identity, memory and the politics of everyday life. Jason Kotoch is an MWCC alum, and a graduate student in the department of art at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. Instagram: @jasonkotoch