“Rocket” by Scott Listfield
“Hey, that’s me. I’m mostly an artist but I’m also curating this show. If you don’t know me, I’ve spent the better part of 20 years painting a lone exploratory astronaut lost in a landscape cluttered with pop culture icons, corporate logos, and science fiction references. Talking about the future—the good, the bad, the unknown—is what I do in all of my work. In these pieces I used the framing device of the moon, which really, more than anything else, to me symbolizes both the promise and the disappointment of the future. We last visited the moon before I was born. Will we get back there? If we do, will we pave it over and fill it with strip malls? Will we remake it in our image or will we learn from past mistakes? Or will we never again achieve the heights we did 50 years ago?” – Listfield
