Where I’ve been · 2005–2018
Before the first stereoscopic artwork went on-chain: design school, magazine covers and concert guides, festival photography in 3D, and anaglyph landscapes on canvas.
Cal Poly Pomona · class of 2005
BFA in Graphic Design, California State Polytechnic University, Pomona.
I found a wrinkle in the system. An art school that had some of the best professors who changed the way I looked at creating art and graphic design. They are the foundation for where I have grown from here. I look back on those formative days as the start of everything. I found my aesthetic in art school, then kept building on it.
Posters
Packaging and studio
2006–2010
Cover design and live concert reviews.
Covers, feature spreads, festival posters and the LA 101 concert guides for Los Angeles’ alt-weekly, plus the web billboards that ran on laweekly.com.
Covers
Concert Reviews
LA Weekly was a great job because not only did I get access to the best art in the city, but I also scored concert tickets to see bands I loved and got to write about them.
- Obama and Tool. Two stages. One night.
- Ben Harper and The Innocent Criminals, Orpheum Theatre
- Queens of the Stone Age, Nokia Theater
- Immagine in Cornice (Picture in a Frame): a Pearl Jam film
- Chris Cornell, Wiltern Theater
- Pearl Jam, as Hot as the Devil’s Asshole
- Live in L.A.: Roger Waters
Concerts and festivals
Features
Web billboards
2009 · 2010
Official 3D photographer of the Coachella Festival, two years running.
Shot front row with a stereoscopic camera Coldie built himself, and published as 3D galleries on coachella.com in 2009 and 2010.
Coachella 2009
TV on the Radio Coachella 2009 · shot in 3D by Coldie
Coachella 2010
Them Crooked Vultures Coachella 2010 · shot in 3D by Coldie
Grab your blue/red 3D glasses
Featured on coachella.com, 2009–2010
2009–2018
A decade shooting live music in stereoscopic 3D.
Rock and hip-hop, front row, in real depth, with a camera Coldie built himself. He shot believing a technology that didn’t yet exist would one day show the images in full dimensional color. In 2021, viewing the archive in VR for the first time, that conviction was confirmed.
Some of the musicians he captured, including Chris Cornell, Mac Miller and DMX, are no longer with us, which makes these among the only times they’ll be seen again in true dimensional space. The series was exhibited as Front Row 3D at Gazelli Art House, London.
Front Row 3D at Gazelli Art House ↗
Since 2009 · anaglyph on canvas
Landscapes and portraits in real depth, hung with 3D glasses beside them.
Begun in 2009, the work marked a symbolic shift: from Downtown Los Angeles, where much of the source photography was shot, back to Northern California, where Coldie found the peace and solitude to create his first body of work. The pieces are collaged cityscapes and landscapes printed as red/cyan anaglyphs on canvas, some with burned edges, some lit from within.
Grab your blue/red 3D glasses
On the wall
Featuring stereoscopic 3D artwork including Front Row 3D: Photography from the Coachella Music Festival, and works that would later be tokenized as digital works.
Recognition
Two anaglyph 3D landscapes on canvas, shown with 3D glasses on display: the traditional art world meeting the medium on its own terms.
- 2016
Home
Mixed media · stereoscopic 3D anaglyph gel transfer on canvas
National juried exhibition, juried by Jenny Gheith, Assistant Curator of Painting and Sculpture, SFMOMA (now Curator and Interim Head of Painting and Sculpture)
- 2018
Ascension: Above / Ascension: Below
Mixed media · stereoscopic 3D anaglyph gel transfer on canvas
National juried exhibition, juried by Mat Gleason, Los Angeles critic and curator
