Because art makes life better

Angus Rowe MacPherson, Fishing, 2008

Angus Rowe MacPherson, Hunting, 2008

Welcome to March, and the possibility that it isn’t going to snow forever! We are thrilled to introduce our next artist to you – an emerging talent who grew up in Iqaluit, Nunavut in the tundra of the high arctic, who lived in London and Tokyo, and has so far settled in Toronto (I wonder if he makes new friends by telling them he lived in an Igloo?).

Angus Rowe MacPherson’s images remind us why we love what we do. They remind us why art is important in a world where most people go to work and become robotic versions of themselves. Angus goes to work and creates slightly prankish, meticulously composed and technically brilliant environments that somehow elevate our everyday lives into supersonic status. Already an accomplished commercial photographer by the time he was in his 20s, Angus uses his commercial background – and cinematic devices such as lighting, fog machines, actors and props – to construct slightly surreal, Esquire-esque portraits of a fictionalized world of his own invention. We also love that he chose this time of year to create them – that ponderous and elusive transformation of life as it emerges from the frozen world we have just witnessed.

Angus Rowe MacPherson’s work has been exhibited in Canada, Denmark, China, Japan, the UK and the United States and we recently discovered that the images we are releasing here will be published in the Spring issue of Experience, the in-flight magazine for Bombardier’s private luxury jets. Fancy THAT.

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EYE BUY ART…in Twos

Save on shipping by purchasing multiple prints at once. Our 8×10” and 11×14” prints can be grouped by size and shipped together to a maximum of 4 per package. This is a great option when you’re considering buying the work as a diptych – to hang on the wall side by side, or one on top of the other. In almost all cases the work we have chosen for this site is intentionally paired, with 2 images that work together by the same artist to create maximum impact.

Framing your Questions

Is framing something you’re interested in knowing more about? We are planning on posting a page with our framing tips soon. For now, feel free to email us with your questions. Also, we actually mean it when we say we want to hear from you. We are real and true human beings that work on this project – and we love what we do! We jump for joy when we get your letters and emails – so please join us in conversation and ask us everything you always wanted to know but were afraid to ask. Have you bought a print from us yet? How did you like it and where is it hanging? We want to know:

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News + Inspirations

• Internet marketing guru, TED Talk speaker, and author of Tribes, Seth Godin, gave EYE BUY ART and founder Emily McInnes a massive plug to a live audience of 1600 people yesterday, showing a slide of our homepage featuring Ryan Shude’s Diner and citing us as change innovators who are leaders in the field. Thank you Seth! Comment
• EYE BUY ART was featured on Springwise and went out to their database of 120,000 followers. We had sales around the world and will be featured in the upcoming issue of Amsterdam-based Linda Magazine – apparently the most widely read women’s magazine in the Netherlands. Dank Je Springwise! Comment
• Adam Kuehl’s images – and a nice plug for EYE BUY ART – will also be featured in the upcoming issue of Experience Magazine (fun factoid: apparently the average net-worth of the magazine’s reader is $1 billion). Meow! Comment
• EYE BUY ART has a permanently installed satellite exhibition space at the new Brassaii on King Street West in Toronto (congratulations to Designer Guys Anwar Mekhayech, Matt Davis and Allen Chan on the re-design). The exhibition launch features EYE BUY ARTist’s Robyn McCallum and Ryan Schude. Comment
• Did you know that EYE BUY ART is the sister organization to Flash Forward? We represent photographers who have been chosen by this photo competition’s jury as the “ones to watch out for”. Watch here for a clip of our Festival Co-Director MaryAnn Camilleri: If we invest in emerging artists we are going to build a stronger arts future– and that’s really what it’s about
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Art Loverly Yours,
The EYE BUY ART Team