08/30/2026
✨ Push-Up (2026), is from John Goldsmith’s new series, The Playground. The series considers spaces shaped by both possibility and constraint, and the ways memory and experience shape what we see and remember. In Push-Up, colour separates, edges misalign, and the image begins to slide. What first appears fixed becomes less certain, reflecting the way memory can feel partial, layered, and unstable.
The piece brings together archival pigment printing, layered photographic imagery, precise registration, an LED lightbox, acrylic, and a custom solid ash enclosure with ash spacers. The photographic layers are intentionally separated, allowing colour, light, and the image itself to shift as the work is viewed from different positions.
Push-Up also explores the intersection of RGB and CMYK, bringing emitted light and printed colour together in the same object.
The project was printed and constructed at PrintMaker Studio, with the custom ash box fabricated in collaboration with Duncan MacCallum. Many thanks to Duncan for working through the details with us and helping get the enclosure just right!
For artists interested in custom presentation or box construction for photographic work, come talk to us. We’re always happy to explore how the physical object can become part of the artwork.
Push-Up (2026)
Archival pigment prints, LED panel, acrylic sheets, solid ash wood frame and spacers
12.5 × 18.5 × 8.5 in
Edition 3 + 1 AP
