Natalie Collette Wood's Nesting Installation Blends Botanical Photography and Sculpture at Sugar Hill Children's Museum
The Sugar Hill Children's Museum is currently showcasing "Nesting," a solo exhibition by Natalie Collette Wood. This display features large-scale installations that include oversized botanical imagery, a sculptural setup of moss-covered furniture, and hanging botanical nests. A multidisciplinary artist based in New York City, Wood employs inkjet image transfer and gesso on canvas to craft intricate layered botanical visuals, merging elements from both contemporary and historical contexts. Her creations utilize living materials such as moss and flowers alongside found objects, exploring the relationship between natural and man-made environments. Wood's recent endeavors include projects at Wave Hill and the Bronx Museum of the Arts. She is recognized as a 2025 NYSCA/NYFA Artist Fellow, with works like "Uptown Garden" and "Midnight Nesting," all from 2025.
Key facts
- Natalie Collette Wood's solo exhibition Nesting is on view at the Sugar Hill Children's Museum.
- The installation includes outsized two-dimensional botanical images, a three-dimensional sculptural arrangement of moss-covered furniture, and suspended botanical nests.
- Wood uses inkjet image transfer and gesso on canvas to create layered botanical imagery.
- She is a 2025 NYSCA/NYFA Artist Fellow and a 2025–26 Sharpe-Walentas Studio Program resident.
- Her work has been featured in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Vogue Italia, and FLAUNT.
- Recent projects include presentations at Wave Hill, the New York Botanical Garden, the Bronx Museum of the Arts, and the Andrew Freedman Home.
- Wood is based in New York City and draws from materials and ecologies in her Bronx surroundings.
- The exhibition includes works such as Uptown Garden, Midnight Nesting, The Nest on Swing Street, Soft Ending, Sunset Imprint, Summer Blom, The Garden Fossils, Bloom, Flower Gel, Afterlight, Violet Web, Summer Bloom II, Breath, and Hard Light, all from 2025.
Entities
Artists
- Natalie Collette Wood
- Emily Laux
Institutions
- Sugar Hill Children's Museum
- Wave Hill
- New York Botanical Garden
- Bronx Museum of the Arts
- Andrew Freedman Home
- NYSCA/NYFA
- Sharpe-Walentas Studio Program
- The New York Times
- The Wall Street Journal
- Vogue Italia
- FLAUNT
- Lenscratch
Locations
- New York City
- United States
- Bronx
- New York