Sometimes Gallery is pleased to present our first exhibition, MAGIC WOODS, opening June 13 from 4-6pm, a participant in
@upstateartweekend , and open weekends through July 18, 2026.
Curated by
@joshuasimpsonphoto &
@nattybax and featuring work by Kelly Adelia
@catkellycat , Eve Biddle
@biddlebiddle , Margot Bird
@margotbird , Theresa Daddezio
@theresadaddezio , Mary Fleming
@georgiesgurl , Johannah Herr
@johannah_herr & Frank
@frank_frank_frank_frank_frank , Brett Douglas Hunter
@brettdouglashunter , Roxanne Jackson
@roxannejackson_ , Zaq Landsberg
@zaqlandsberg , Bailey Raha
@_baileyraha , Landon Speers
@landonspeers , & Monika Zarzeczna
@monikazarzeczna
🪄 🌲 🪵 ✨
Magic Woods is a group exhibition unfolding inside Sometimes Gallery and across the surrounding forested hillside of Rattlesnake Mountain. Inspired by the children’s storytelling podcast Magic Woods, the exhibition draws from the logic of fables and fairy tales, where animals speak, objects hold memory, and wandering becomes a way of knowing.
The sculptures, paintings, and photographs explore the forest as both a site of playful wonder and a place of uncertainty, trickery, and danger. The woods become a space for curiosity and connection while holding what is unknown.
As parents to young children, Magic Woods has become part of our daily rhythms, looping through car rides and bedtime routines alongside news and alerts that often feel just as surreal. We each inhabit our own version of a magic wood and can forget the shared natural world that connects us. This exhibition proposes the forest as a place to slow down, wander, and listen. Moving between gallery and landscape, visitors are invited to reimagine their relationship to place, story, and one another, finding magic not in escape but in attention, presence, and connection.
Sometimes Gallery is housed in the backyard of Natalie Baxter and Josh Simpson in Natalie’s studio, (that is sometimes a gallery), nestled among their home and woods on Rattlesnake Mountain in Wassaic, NY.
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