Eric Goldstein

Eric Goldstein began his career as a teenager, sweeping floors, setting up lights and processing film in a small dark room for the renowned civil rights photographer James ”Spider’ Martin. Throughout his high school years, Eric worked as an assistant photographer to Martin whose work appeared, at the time, in national publications such as Life, Time and Look magazines and today is on permanent display at the Civil Rights Museum in Birmingham Alabama.

Eric honed his skills as a fine artist at Rhode Island School of Design. While in school, Eric‘s metal sculpture, Garden Rocks, was chosen in a jury-selected show to exhibit at the Rhode Island Museum of Art. He also had a one-man show of his photography entitled the Duality of Light. Eric continued his arts education in Los Angeles earning a master degree in Film and Video from the California Institute of the Arts.

Eric has photographed over 65 features and televised movies of the week. His work has garnered several awards including An Eastman Kodak Excellence Award, Several Best Cinematography Awards at the BC’s Leo Awards, and a Gemini nomination. Eric’s distinct style has been aptly termed "lustrous naturalism".

Throughout his filmmaking career Eric has remained contemporary in the language of art with his multi-media art. Presently, he is using various colored threads, acrylic paint, gold leaf and plaster to construct canvases that are graphically influenced, and endeavor to express the same underlying concepts that he strives for as a cinematographer. He calls his work Emotional Narratives with Kinetic Energy.  

Eric has exhibited his work in Montreal, Toronto, and Whistler, West Vancouver and in North Vancouver.