It Doesn’t Hurt to Fall From the Moon

October 9, 2026 | November 15, 2026

It Doesn’t Hurt to Fall from the Moon / at the Parts Room - Delhi, NY

Falling should hurt. But what if it doesn’t? What if you land somewhere else and have to learn the gravity?

Landing begins with the experience of finding yourself somewhere you didn’t expect to be. A place, a body, a relationship, a landscape, a way of living or understanding the world has changed. Maybe the change is sudden. Maybe it has been happening so slowly that you only recognize it once you are already somewhere else.

This can happen in the making of an artwork, too. Artists begin with an idea, an image, a material, or an intention, and somewhere along the way the work becomes something else. The material behaves unexpectedly. An image refuses its original meaning. A process produces something they could not have anticipated. At some point, making becomes less about realizing an idea and more about recognizing what has appeared—and deciding whether to follow it.

The exhibition is interested in this state of adjustment: the distance between what was imagined and what actually emerges. Not necessarily as loss, or as a desire to return to where you started, but as a willingness to respond to what is now in front of you. Adaptation can be awkward, inventive, painful, funny, or strangely ordinary. Sometimes it is a conscious decision; sometimes you only realize afterward how far you have moved.

There may be grief in this, but also possibility. A new condition asks for new ways of seeing, making, and moving through the world.

The exhibition brings together artists whose work exists somewhere within this shift: between intention and accident, the familiar and the unknown, remembering and becoming. Artists who allow the work to change the terms of the conversation—to lead them somewhere they had not intended to go.

Artists in the show: Bette Alexander, Meena Kim, Bobbie Oliver, Lizzie Wright (more artists to be annouced soon)