On View: May 5th - July 31st, 2026
Opening Reception: Thursday, June 11th, 6-8pm

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As renewed momentum builds around lunar missions like Artemis II, Moonage Daydream reflects not only our technological ambitions, but the enduring human impulse to look outward (and inward) through the lens of the cosmos. Bringing together four artists with distinct yet intersecting approaches, this exhibition explores outer space as both a physical frontier and a conceptual framework.

Cassandra Klos works in direct proximity to the infrastructure of space exploration, photographing astronaut training environments that exist in a space between simulation and reality. These images, both grounded and speculative, show the familiar conditions of Earth reconfigured to stand in for something far beyond it.

Bill Finger focuses deliberately on fabrication. Drawing from his sculptural and film set background, Finger constructs intricate dioramas that stage moments of exploration and escape. These images embrace illusion, using scale and artifice to re-imagine space as a site of ambition and human possibility.

Molly Lamb’s meditative approach treats the cosmos as a reflective surface. Through subtle, atmospheric imagery, space becomes a way of thinking through human existence; our fragility, persistence, and our search for meaning within a vast universe.

Marky Kauffmann turns toward constructed imagery, composing celestial forms that exist between documentation and invention. Her work suggests space not as something directly seen, but something continually produced through imaging systems, data, and interpretation. These constructions remind us that our understanding of the universe is always mediated, assembled, and incomplete.

Together, these works propose that space is not a singular idea, but a spectrum of scientific, imaginative, and existential meanings. At a time when the boundaries of exploration are expanding once again, this exhibition asks what it means to reach beyond Earth, and what we discover about ourselves in the process.

Cassandra Klos - Mars on Earth

“Around the globe, space analogs and off-planet simulations envision a new science fiction by researching humans in space-specific confinements and otherworldly landscapes. With pressurized space suits, freeze-dried food, and Mission Control waiting back at "home," these photographs attempt to visualize what space travel might be like for the first cosmic explorers.

The simulation analog serves as an extreme environment like the conditions of lunar or Martian habitation, allowing us to investigate how humans can live and work in isolation, confinement, and reduced sensory conditions. These factors mirror the experience of future space missions, especially in long-duration space travel. Using photographer Frank Hurley as a referential figure in storytelling, this documentation highlights the significant interplay between documenting human endurance in the harshest conditions and inspiring future generations to explore the unknown.

The simulated experience blurs a line between reality and fiction, and this "between space" persuades participants to suspend their disbelief. I am interested in the juxtaposition between the real and fictitious, both among the psychological persuasion and the visuals that cue these kinds of connections. In the same spirit, this visual archive serves as both a historical record and a source of inspiration for storytellers, artists, scientists, and explorers, underscoring the necessity of both imagination and resilience in the pursuit of space exploration.

This work references science fiction, but also environmentalism and human futurisms -- as we learn more about how we would live in space we also are learning how we can live better here on Earth. The project does not take place solely in one location, but in microcosms and science communities all over the world.” -Klos

Bill Finger - Ground Control

“There is something human in the desire to explore. To reach beyond ourselves and grasp the life less ordinary. In Ground Control, our protagonist looks to Space and longs to break free. Obsessively, they build towards their dream, to live the astronaut’s life. What may be seen by many as an effort doomed to failure; our protagonist envisions as a life spent weightless.

Before falling back to Earth again, the astronaut, first must touch the sky.” -Finger

Molly Lamb - Solace in the Stardust

“The series Solace in the Stardust is a meditation on the belief that we are all made of stardust and we are all inherently interconnected. In the way that we have looked to the stars for guidance throughout history, I began doing the same, but looking for the stars everywhere in the world around me, not just above me. Stars map physical geography, but they also hold the mysteries of spirituality, awe, and wonder. Looking outward to constellations in the night sky overlaps with looking inward to the constellations of our lives and our histories. Light becomes a portal between the cosmic and the earthly, resonating with the stardust that infuses everything in the Universe and glows with our interconnectedness. In this space where they meet, we mend and heal. I find solace in the tender bursts of stardust that dapple our lives, even in the darkest times.” -Lamb

Marky Kauffmann