You can't miss Scott Listfield's astronauts

Scott Listfield's paintings are unique with a heavy overtone of humor and an undertone of cultural discourse. In his artist statement he says, "I paint astronauts and, sometimes, dinosaurs. The astronaut in my paintings is simply here to explore the present." He discusses the obsession in the late '60s to Stanley Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey and then later other cultural crazes such as The Jetsons, Lost in Space and Jurassic Park. "Generations raised on these programs, movies, comic books and novels are now grown and living in a future filled with mini vans, Starbucks, iMacs and Hip Hop videos," Listfield says. His work wittingly combines these two ideas of the past obsession with space and today's culture.