"If a person can look at my art and feel like they're there, populate this fictional world with their own emotions and thoughts, then I'll be successful," Goldsmith said. Goldsmith calls his latest form of expression 3D painting. It's a move away from found imagery and collage to less real objects and environments.
"Rather then convey a message to viewers of my work, I'm trying to create an environment or evoke a mood." Goldsmith explained. "That's what my original purpose was with photography."
He continued that his photographs were an effort to convey a moment in time. Not a moment in the journalistic sense, but rather in the emotional sense of being somewhere at an exact time. There will never be a moment like that again and he feels his new computer work has some of these elements.
Before graduating from Carnegie Mellon University with a degree in computer science, art and computers had converged from previously separate paths. Artistically, he began as a black and white photographer. Photography lead to video, video lead into animation, and animation to computer graphics.
Graduation lead to the computer industry in California, where he promptly lost his photography portfolio and best negatives during a theft. With occasional detours into printmaking and mixed media collage, computer imagery always re-emerged. Before moving to Seattle, he worked producing 3D imagery for television and film at (Colossal) Pictures in San Francisco. Most notable of his work there was the second season of "Moxy's Pirate Television Show" for the Turner Cartoon Network.
Goldsmith has had both his computer imagery shown and published in Maine, Pennsylvania and California. Goldsmith is currently represented by the Art/Not Terminal Gallery in Seattle, Washington.