Artist statement

I work in depth — the space just in front of and just behind the flat surface, where the eye is fooled into believing an image is no longer flat. For more than fifteen years I’ve pursued that illusion across mediums: stereoscopic and lenticular prints, anaglyph 3D, kinetic sculpture, photography, and on-chain editions. My portraits are built by recombining many source images into one, the way a person is built from many influences. The tools change — a hand-built 3D camera, a lenticular press, a blockchain, a VR headset — but the work is always the same: take something flat, and give it dimension.

The auction arc

Coldie’s work has appeared at all three major auction houses — and each time, the houses chose the 3D work. In 2022, Sotheby’s included his stereoscopic art in Inside the World of MaxStealth, the first single-owner NFT auction held live in its salesroom, alongside Beeple, XCOPY, Pak, and Hackatao — the last a collaborator on the 3D work UAP — Unidentified Art Phenomenon. In 2021, Bonhams featured Proof of Work — Genesis in its SuperRare “CryptOGs” sale. In 2024, Christie’s offered Warren Buffett — Filthy Fiat, the debut of his portraiture as physical 3D sculpture.

Front Row 3D — concert photography (2009–2018)

For nearly a decade, Coldie photographed live music in stereoscopic 3D using a camera of his own construction, serving as the official 3D photographer of the Coachella Festival in 2009 and 2010. He shot believing a technology that did not yet exist would one day render the images in full dimensional color — and in 2021, viewing the archive in VR for the first time, that conviction was confirmed. The series, exhibited as Front Row 3D at Gazelli Art House, London, now stands as a rare dimensional record of performers including Chris Cornell, Mac Miller, and DMX.

Credentials

Work selected for national juried exhibitions: 2016, juried by Jenny Gheith, Assistant Curator of Painting and Sculpture, SFMOMA (now Curator and Interim Head of Painting and Sculpture); 2018, juried by LA critic and curator Mat Gleason. Exhibited at Gazelli Art House, London. First stereoscopic artwork minted on-chain (2018). Work brought to auction at all three major houses — Christie’s, Sotheby’s, and Bonhams. Represented at Eterno Gallery, Lisbon. The 2016 and 2018 juried pieces were anaglyph 3D landscapes on canvas, shown with 3D glasses on display.

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