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 approaches space through grief and transformation. She uses gelatin silver paper, chemical processes, and hand-constructed forms to create imagined constellations and celestial bodies. Inspired by the loss of two loved ones and Einstein’s theory that energy cannot be destroyed, she considers the possibility of human presence extending beyond earthly life.

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.