Oli’s Goldsmith’s modern-day ‘combines’ merge advanced digital output and transfer processes with paint, ink and other traditional media.

He eagerly experiments with varied techniques – often combining old with the new and creating new hybrid forms in the process. Crisp digital line art, found and sampled photography, iconography and text, invented catch-phrases, drawings and poetic ramblings layer with expressive painting and drawing to create a distinctly rich, colourful and energetic style.

Early inspiration came from media studies; his work is a reflection of our information saturated society where media bombard us all constantly and often subconsciously. Interests in language, communication and iconography are significant influences to the scattered fragments of image and text that populate his paintings.

These often chaotic compositions have a ‘through the looking-glass’ element of reflecting patterns of our media landscape while transporting viewers into an alternate and intensely personal world of the artist.

Disparate and often bizarre elements combine and play off one another in surprising, provocative and often humorous ways. How the mind plays into subtext and suggestion – the subliminal elements often explored in surrealism and automatism are directly connected to Oli’s working process.

Pieces are generally not planned in any particular manner but are formed through an improvisational process, building up layers gradually from ideas in the moment that bounce off one another. The constant surprise of the results is the exhilarating satisfaction from the creative act and is what more than anything else motivates his work.
Oli is represented in Vancouver by Gallery Jones WWW.GALLERYJONES.COM
In Toronto his work is available through Parts Gallery WWW.PARTSGALLERY.CA and BRUSH gallery WWW.BRUSHGALLERY.COM

I also sell directly at WWW.OLIGOLDSMITH.COM

 

selected exhibits

• GALLERY JONES. June 2006. Solo show. Vancouver.
• PARTS GALLERY. ‘Trophy.’ March 2006. Solo show. Toronto.
• MAHAN GALLERY. August 2005. Group Show. Ohio.
• DRAKE HOTEL. November 2004. Artist in Residence. Toronto.
• SAGAMIHARA ARTIST ASSOCIATION.
Sept. 2004. Group show. Sagamihara, JAPAN.
2 of Oli’s works are now owned by the Sagamihara city collection.
• PARTS GALLERY. June 2004. Solo show. Toronto.
• Loop Gallery. ‘loot’ January 2004. Solo Show. Toronto.
• MVPA, ARTFEST. August 2003. Showcase of Fine Art by Music
Video Industry directors. Los Angeles.
• EAST QUEEN GALLERY. Dec. 2003. Solo Show. Toronto.
• BITCAST LOFT. August 2002. Solo Show. Tribecca, NYC.
• Partners' Film Company. April - May 2002. Solo Show. Toronto.
• BUS GALLERY. Sept.1999. Group Show. Toronto.
• TOURISM TORONTO. Nov ‘98 - Jan ‘99. Queen’s Quay. Toronto.
• EAST QUEEN GALLERY. April 1998. Solo Show. Toronto
• Digital Salon. January 1998. Circulo de Bellas Artes, Madrid.
• EAST QUEEN GALLERY. December 1997. Solo Show. Toronto.
• SVA - the Visual Arts Museum. Digital Salon ‘97. NYC.

selected awards

• 6 MUCHMUSIC VIDEO AWARD Nominations (2001)
for Our Lady Peace “In Repair” music video.
(won best post production, best director and best video)
• 2 JUNO AWARD Nominations (2001)
for Our Lady Peace (best album artwork) and (best music video)
• Recipient of Arts Toronto ‘Protegé Honours for 2000
• 1998 YTV Achievement Award for Visual Arts