Thinkspace Projects

excited to announce my latest exhibit opening next week in Los Angeles, California titled Risks & Rewards at Thinkspace Projects

If you’d like an advanced preview, it goes out Monday next week. Please contact the gallery directly to arrange

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'Risks & Rewards' is a body of work that lives in the space between instinct and consequence. It explores what happens when the natural world collides with the constructed one—when creatures built for oceans and open skies drift into the streets, subways, and alleyways of human life. These scenes aren’t meant to be realistic, but they are meant to feel familiar: like memories, dreams, or warnings that linger long after waking.

The animals in these works appear as both visitors and symbols. Sharks and orcas move through city environments like ghosts—powerful, calm, and misplaced. Their presence turns everyday spaces into something uncertain and cinematic, where danger feels close but also strangely beautiful. In this way, the work becomes a metaphor for survival: the tension of navigating environments not built for you, and the courage it takes to keep moving forward anyway.

The title 'Risks & Rewards' reflects this constant exchange. Every step into the unknown carries fear, but also the possibility of transformation. The work speaks to the gamble of growing, healing, and evolving—whether as individuals or as a society. The reward is not safety, but clarity: moments of stillness inside chaos, and the realization that even in the most unnatural settings, life adapts.

At its core, this exhibition is about contrast—nature and infrastructure, silence and motion, predator and prey, vulnerability and strength. These images create a world where the impossible becomes ordinary, inviting the viewer to question what is truly out of place: the animals in the city, or the world we’ve built around them.

'Risks & Rewards' asks us to consider what we risk in pursuit of progress, and what we might still recover if we pay attention before it’s too late.

I’ve got a timed release print that just went live on the Thinkspace Projects web store! It’s only available for the next three days, so snag one before Monday at 10am PST. https://shop.thinkspaceprojects.com/collections/frontpage/products/scott-listfield-day-and-night-timed-edition

This one is from Thinkspace Projects’ 20th anniversary show, and was made in celebration of LA after the devastating fires last year. The print is 18x26 inches and will be capped at a max of 75 copies. Grab one now!

This painting is too cute not to share! “Feral Dream” (acrylic on canvas) by RYOL .id was part of the ‘Our Fantabulously Furry Feline Friends’ group exhibition at Thinkspace Projects . You can still see the entire collection online!

https://shop.thinkspaceprojects.com/collections/our-fantabulously-furry-feline-friends-group-exhibit

Thinkspace Projects
4217 W. Jefferson Blvd. | Los Angeles, CA 90016
#310.558.3375 | Tues. – Sat. Noon to 6PM
thinkspaceprojects.com

For all inquiries please contact the gallery via email at [email protected]

If you need some inspiration - hold on, we got you.

Have you seen Fumi Nakamura's stunning ‘Memento’ solo on the walls of Thinkspace Projects ? It's wonderful!

Exhibition Dates: May 2 – May 23, 2026

"Each elemen in Fumi’s workt is carefully selected to represent elements of life, memory, body and soul. Nakamura pulls from the subconscious, using metaphor and imagery to create striking pieces."

Thinkspace Projects
4217 W. Jefferson Blvd. | Los Angeles, CA 90016
#310.558.3375 | Tues. – Sat. Noon to 6PM
thinkspaceprojects.com

For all inquiries please contact the gallery via email at [email protected]

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