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Good Tuesday art lovers!

Today we release to you, 2 images by UK photographic super-talent Jo Gane, from the series Alternative Suns. Brace yourselves to be enchanted by the merry-worlds made by these magical and sinister man-made constellations, based on childhood memories growing up in Coventry in the West Midlands.

The photographs in this series were shot during many long nights in the familiar landscape surrounding her childhood home. A landscape that once contained dens made in hedgerows, nature to discover, a thousand places to explore with the innocent wonder of childhood – made strange by the darkness of night. A strangeness that resonates with change as the artist becomes increasingly distant from this rural landscape.

Artificial light punctuates the darkness of the landscapes she creates, imitating the natural glow of the sun during daytime, and creating the atmosphere of a never-ending day. This light pollution affects the natural order of things, causing birds to sing and flowers to bloom in the middle of the night. Animals remain awake. The lights produce a gravitational effect on insects, drawing them in towards the glow.

Read more about these images here and here.

News + Inspirations

• EYE BUY ART at the Mascot. The exhibition, which launched as a fundraiser for The Princess Margaret Hospital Foundation, continues in Toronto to Aug 16th and is a great chance to see prints from the site in person!

EYE BUY ART
July 16 – August 16, 2010
The Mascot
1267 Queen Street West
Toronto, ON

• You probably know by now that EYE BUY ART is the sister organization to Flash Forward. We will be releasing images from the winners of the 2010 competition starting in the next few weeks, and also – make sure to mark October 6 – 10^th in your calendars when we will be presenting the biennial Flash Forward Festival in Toronto’s Liberty Village.

• 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.

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Art Loverly Yours,
The EYE BUY ART Team

Join us at this FREE event happening tonight at The Mascot in Toronto! The event will include an EYE BUY ART exhibition, a silent auction and drinks to whet your Friday night whistle! The evening is presented by increaseyourodds.ca, an online publication dedicated to providing accessible information about healthy living, cancer prevention and cancer treatment. Increase Your Odds is participating in the Weekend To End Women’s Cancers and needs your help and support to raise funds for cancer research. All proceeds raised during the silent auction will go directly to the Princess Margaret Hospital Foundation.

EYE BUY ART’s exhibition continues to August 17th.

The Mascot
1267 Queen Street West
Toronto, ON M6K 1L5

Opening reception: Friday July 16. 7-10pm
Silent Auction will run for the duration of the evening

New Image Release

EYE BUY ART will be releasing 2 new images by UK photographic superstar Jo Gane, from her series Alternative Suns next Tuesday, July 20^th. Prepare yourselves to be enchanted by the merry-worlds of these magical and sinister man-made constellations, based on her childhood memories growing up in Coventry in the West Midlands, UK.

Until Tuesday…

^{Art Loverly Yours,}
Emily

^{The EYE BUY ART Team}

Eamon Mac Mahon, Port Dover, Ontario, 2008

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EYE BUY ART on Canada Day

Oh happy day, dear Canada, as we blast off fireworks in celebration of the final release in our six part series based on the theme “The Canadian Souvenir”! The inspiration for this project comes from the souvenir section at the airport, and our fascination with how we market ourselves to tourists – because nothing says the “authentic Canadian experience” like a plastic inukshuk bottle stopper, or a stuffed beaver in a hockey jersey.

Each week, starting in May, six artists from EYE BUY ART released a site-specific, limited edition print in partnership with the Drake Hotel. Each image is limited to an 11×14” in an edition of 150, and sold for $50 each. Photographs from the series are available individually, or, you can save on shipping for a limited time and purchase the entire series as a boxed set for $300.

The final installment in our series by Eamon Mac Mahon, was photographed in Port Dover, Ontario, situated on the north shore of Lake Erie, and perched on the cusp between Canada and the United States. This image perfectly encapsulates our reverie – and our complex relationship – with the natural landscape that surrounds us; allowing it to grow freely, and at the same time, plundering it’s resources. Read more about this image on eyebuyart.com

News

• EYE BUY ART is featured in the current issue of Amsterdam-based Linda Magazine, one of the most widely read women’s magazines in the Netherlands – and judging by the number of prints we are shipping that way – we believe it. Dank Je Linda Magazine!

• Adam Kuehl and Angus Rowe MacPherson’s images from EYE BUY ART are featured in the current issue of Experience, the in-flight magazine for Bombardier’s private luxury-class jets. Arjun Basu – you rule.
• EYE BUY ART has a permanently installed satellite exhibition space at the new Drake General Store on Bathurst Street in Toronto, and will be showing all six images from The Canadian Souvenir series at their Rosedale location. Special thanks to our friends Mia Nielsen and Jeff Stober at the Drake Hotel for playing with us on the Souvenirs project – and an extra special universal high five to the artists and collectors who made it all happen!
• Watch for a special exhibition of EYE BUY ART at The Mascot in Toronto, in partnership with The Princess Margaret Hospital Foundation and one of our all-time favourite organizations Fisheye Corporation. We’ll send your invite soon!

Art Loverly Yours,
The EYE BUY ART Team

Angus Rowe MacPherson, Fishing, 2008

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EYE BUY ART for Father’s Day

…because it’s SO much better than a lame tie or a pair of golf clubs. Give your special pop the enduring gift of art: Save on shipping by purchasing multiple prints at once, and as always, our gift certificates are available in any price denomination you choose. If you need some inspiration try our handy search tool using the keyword “Father’s Day”!

EYE BUY ART at the Drake

The next and final image from our 6 part series on the theme “The Canadian Souvenir” will be released on July 1st, Canada Day, and will be by photographer Eamon Mac Mahon. Each image from this series will be strictly limited to an 11×14” in an edition of 150, and sold for $50 each.

Read more about the images from this series and submit your comments – we love hearing from you!

Art Loverly Yours,
The EYE BUY ART Team

Part 5 of 6: Mark Kasumovic

Oh Canada, true north strong and free is a line from our national anthem, and a symbolic reference to our independence as a nation and emergence as a natural resource-based economy. The Canadian landscape symbolizes a departure point in our history, where the economic framework in Europe at the beginning of the nineteenth century – which was based on urban, class-based industry – simply wouldn’t work in a place where timber was the dominant commodity.

Founded upon European demand, the timber trade brought investment and immigration to eastern Canada; it fostered economic development; and it transformed the regional environment far more radically than the earlier exploitation of fish and fur. As Mark Kasumovic references in his title, lumber has long been a staple in the Canadian export economy, and is the resource we are most widely recognized for. In his ongoing series Ideal Landscapes Mark refers to the role that photography plays in documenting the landscape, which historically, has been used to beautify the world around us. In this image however, the use of flash and commercial lighting techniques are used less to create beauty out of a fictionalized stage, and more to call our attention to the landscape as a commodity – a bucolic re-rendering of the majestic landscape as a somewhat undignified pile of lumber.

Mark Kasumovic (along with EYE BUY ARTist Becky Comber) was among eight emerging contemporary photographers commissioned recently by Harbourfront Center to create a large-scale photo installation along Toronto’s waterfront exploring Ontario’s Greenbelt. His work was chosen as the Ontario winner in the Bank of Montreal BMO 1st Art Competition in 2009 and has exhibited recently at the Museum of Contemporary Canadian Art (MOCCA), Edward Day Gallery, Toronto Image Works and The Department of Canadian Heritage.

EYE BUY ART’s Canadian-based artists will each create a site-specific piece in partnership with The Drake Hotel around the idea of “The Canadian Souvenir” which will be released to you once a week, for the next six weeks (the last of which we will release on July 1^st, Canada Day). Each image will be strictly limited to an 11×14” in an edition of 150, and sold for $50 each.

Art Loverly Yours,
The EYE BUY ART Team

Part 4 of 6: Robyn McCallum

We’re not exactly sure how this most innocent of nature’s beasts has become synonymous with the lumberjack culture of Canadian cool – but we like it. Like Becky Comber’s Maple Leaf icon, the beaver has been exploited into one of the most recognized symbols of Canadian identity; stuffed beavers wearing hockey jerseys are sold in airport gift shops all across the country, and its image is minted onto the front of our 5 cent coin.

Robyn McCallum’s research for “Canadian Beavers” included several visits to local gift shops and “trading posts” where we tout our authentic Canadianess to our dear, unsuspecting tourists. Plastic inukshuk bottle stoppers and RCMP cutting boards pile up in kitchen cupboards all across the globe as mementos of the ultimate Canadian vacation. Robyn works with, and amplifies the kitsch of this typical Canadian iconography, by re-appropriating it into the image we see here. She uses elements borrowed from her ongoing series Patrimony, in which traditional representations of women in art history are deconstructed and re-presented in a modern day context using “Pin-ups” and pop-culture images of the 20th century.

Robyn McCallum is a Toronto based artist and curator who received her BFA from Ryerson University’s School of Image Arts in 2008. Her work centres around issues of gender and representation, and often uses humour as a means of social critique. Robyn had a solo show last year at Pikto Gallery in Toronto and has exhibited internationally at Sid Lee Collective’s Starving Artists in Amsterdam. Her work has been published in Magenta Foundation’s Flash Forward 2009, and will be published in the June issue of enRoute – Air Canada’s in-flight magazine.

EYE BUY ART’s Canadian-based artists will each create a site-specific piece in partnership with The Drake Hotel around the idea of “The Canadian Souvenir” which will be released to you once a week, for the next six weeks (the last of which we will release on July 1^st, Canada Day). Each image will be strictly limited to an 11×14” in an edition of 150, and sold for $50 each.

Art Loverly Yours,
The EYE BUY ART Team

Part 3 of 6: Marshall Byrd Sterling

All hail the Queen and her chipped ceramic pet tiger! Monday, May 24^th is Victoria Day, a federal Canadian statutory holiday, better known as May two-four. Most people think this holiday represents the number of bottles that fit into a case of beer that one drinks as they open their cottages up for the season. This image comes as a welcome reminder of what this day truly means, with its symbolic references to colonialism, the commonwealth and the shaping of an uncertain Canadian national identity.

Marshall Byrd Sterling took this photograph through a window onto the porch of a house in Halifax, Nova Scotia – the nation’s first permanent British town and home to Pier 21 (our version of Ellis Island) where 1.5 million immigrants, war brides, displaced people, evacuee children and Canadian military personnel passed through between 1928 and 1971. The portrait of Queen Elizabeth that hangs on the wall inside the porch, was photographed by Josuf Karsh, one of the most famous and accomplished portrait photographers of all time. Karsh, who is of Armenian descent, immigrated to Canada from Beirut on New Year’s Eve, arriving in Halifax in 1925 on the Oceanliner Versailles.

In commemoration of Victoria Day, and to celebrate her Majesty, the Queen of England’s upcoming visit to Parliament Hill on Canada Day, we give three cheers and a bucket o’ beer to Marshall Byrd Sterling for bringing us this latest installment in our series The Canadian Souvenir in partnership with the Drake Hotel. Read the review of the touring Flash Forward Group Show, and Marshall Byrd Sterling’s images in this recent article from the Boston Globe.

EYE BUY ART’s Canadian-based artists will each create a site-specific piece around the idea of “The Canadian Souvenir” which will be released to you once a
week, for the next six weeks (the last of which we will release on July 1^st, Canada Day). Each image will be strictly limited to an 11×14” in an edition of 150, and sold for $50 each.

Art Loverly Yours,
The EYE BUY ART Team

Part 2 of 6: Angus Rowe MacPherson

Welcome, dear collectors, to the second release in our six part series, in partnership with the Drake Hotel, based on the theme, The Canadian Souvenir. This week’s image takes a decidedly different approach to our national identity; a more ambiguous, and slightly murkier view of the Canadian landscape and the cultures that exist between the seams of the airport version of ourselves that we sell to tourists. Perhaps along the lines of what David Cronenberg might have schemed up if he were on a booze-infested camping trip with his buddies!

This is quintessential Angus Rowe MacPherson, with his highly stylized and articulately produced images that suggest a re-reading of the most ordinary of scenes. In this case, a fisherman in hip waders communing with nature, drinking a Carling O’Keefe. We like that this image challenges our stereotypical understanding of the characters we encounter in life – who often end up being quite the opposite of what we expect.

Angus Rowe MacPherson’s work (along with EYE BUY ARTist Adam Kuehl) is featured in the recently released issue of Experience, the in-flight magazine for Bombardier’s private luxury jets (see pp. 46/47 in the online edition). He was born and raised in Iqaluit and now lives and works in Toronto, Canada. His work has been exhibited in Canada, Denmark, China, Japan, the UK and the United States and current projects are top-secret, but may include deer, riots, and an unnecessarily complicated machine.

EYE BUY ART’s Canadian-based artists will each create a site-specific piece around the idea of “The Canadian Souvenir” which we will release to you once a week for the next six weeks. Each image will be strictly limited to an 11×14” in an edition of 150, and sold for $50 each.

Art Loverly Yours,
The EYE BUY ART Team

Part 1 of 6: Becky Comber

We can’t think of a better symbol than the maple leaf to kick off our six part series of images in partnership with the Drake Hotel, based on the theme “The Canadian Souvenir.” It’s an iconic symbol of Canadian national identity, fresh off the forest floor as spring emerges and sap trickles from the trees into steel buckets, becoming our iconic Canadian national food – maple syrup. We can practically see the beavers waving to the people paddling their canoes across a frost-filled northern lake!

As Becky Comber describes: “I wanted to work with the powerful image of the maple leaf, perhaps Canada’s most overly used symbol of pride. I was incredibly struck by the clichéd baggage that this little shape offers, at the strength it holds, and how it’s complicated sides point in so many directions. I have been spending a large amount of my free time in the woods this spring and was inspired to see that when the forest floor first thinks about turning green these seemingly dead little branches turn out to be small saplings sending out crumpled little distorted maple leaves. Maybe this common shape needs new life: as a beautiful symbol worthy of admiration in its own world without all the responsibility.”

Becky Comber (along with EYE BUY ARTist Mark Kasumovic) was among eight emerging contemporary photographers commissioned recently by Harbourfront Center to create a large-scale photo installation along Toronto’s waterfront exploring Ontario’s Greenbelt.

EYE BUY ART’s Canadian-based artists will each create a site-specific piece around the idea of “The Canadian Souvenir” which we will release to you once a week for the next six weeks. Each image will be strictly limited to an 11×14” in an edition of 100, and sold for $50 each.

Read the curator’s blog here.
http://www.harbourfrontcentre.com/upfront/2010/05/meet-becky-comber/

EYE BUY ART for my Mom

Mother’s Day is this Sunday, May 9th! Gift certificates are available in any price denomination you choose. You can send them instantly, or download our EYE BUY ART custom design and hand deliver it with a kiss.

Art Loverly Yours,
The EYE BUY ART Team

We’ve been frolicking away in the warm weather, talking ideas with the art-giftedly talented brain that is Mia Nielsen, Curator of the Drake Hotel in Toronto. More art incubator than hotel – we have decided to jump into their hotbed of culture to partner on an exciting program of site-specific, limited edition prints on the theme of “Canadiana”. I’ve always been fascinated with the souvenir section at the airport, and how we market ourselves to tourists. Nothing says “an authentic Canadian experience” like a stuffed Purple Moose Wall-Mount, or a Wildlife Trio in a Canoe pasta bowl.

EYE BUY ART’s Canadian-based artists will each create a site-specific piece around the idea of “the Canadian souvenir” which we will release to you once a week during the entire month of May. More information will follow in our next newsletter – and be sure to act quickly because each image we release will be limited strictly to an 11×14” in an edition of 100.

EYE BUY ART for my Mom

Mother’s Day is on May 9^th – fill her heart with the love of art!  Save on shipping by purchasing multiple prints at once, and as always, our gift certificates are available in any price denomination you choose. Please place your Mother’s Day orders as soon as possible, our shipping deadline is fast approaching on Tuesday, April 27^th. If you need some inspiration try our handy search tool using the keyword “LOVE”!

News + Inspirations

• Flash Forward BOSTON – our touring exhibition of the winners of the 2009 competition opens this week at the Griffin Museum of Photography. Read the exhibition overview and check out EYE BUY ARTist Marshall Byrd Sterling’s image promoting the exhibition
• In celebration of this year’s book + exhibition at the Griffin Museum of Photography, Flak Photo is featuring 30 photographers for 30 days from Flash Forward on their website.
• EYE BUY ART will be in New York at the end of the month to lecture at the Pratt Institute’s Arts & Cultural Management Program for masters students in not-for-profit. Many thanks to Hilary Burt for the invitation – we are extremely excited!
• EYE BUY ART is reading The $12 Million Dollar Stuffed Shark: the curious ecomomics of contemporary art. “Say you were going to buy a $200,000 painting. I think you should take that money, tie it up, and hang it on the wall. Then when someone visited you, the first thing they would see is the money on the wall” – Andy Warhol. Thanks to EYE BUY ART collector Mike Manson for the recommendation!
• For more up-to-date, on the fly, breaking news alerts like these from EYE BUY ART be sure to join our Facebook conversation and follow our tweets as we post information about art, our artists and us.

Art Loverly Yours,
Emily
The EYE BUY ART Team

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.

Tell us what you think.

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
• For more up-to-date, on the fly, breaking news alerts like these from EYE BUY ART be sure to join our Facebook conversation and follow our tweets as we post information about art, our artists and us.

Art Loverly Yours,
The EYE BUY ART Team

Good Friday Lovers and Collectors,

A quick note before we head to a tiny cabin in a tiny corner of le snowy Québec to snuggle with our favourite tiny Valentines.

Limited edition, fine art photographs starting at $25.

There is still time to place your Valentine’s Day art purchase. Get your order in by no later than this Sunday, February 7th to ship in time for Valentine’s weekend (Canada only, sorry). If you’re outside of Canada send us a note and we will try to make special arrangements. Or, if you just prefer the convenience, our Gift Certificates are available anytime in any denomination you choose.

Gift with Purchase

EYE BUY ARTist Eamon Mac Mahon was the subject of a Bravo! documentary series, called Snapshot, featuring up-and-coming photographers to watch out for in Canada. We just got our hands on a few copies and will include one in the first 10 orders we receive for Eamon Mac Mahon prints (sized 11×14” or larger). What’s not to love?

News + Inspirations

• Eamon Mac Mahon’s upcoming solo exhibition takes place in March at Bau-Xi Photo in Toronto.
• Flash Forward Festival (our sister organization) is taking place from October 6 – 10, 2010 in Toronto’s Liberty Village. We have some very exciting news to tell you about, so stay tuned in early March when we will release further details on our lineup of exhibitions, events, special guests and exciting partnerships!
• We are working on the release of our next artist on March 1st – we are so excited about it we can hardly contain ourselves! The new images, and the story around them, will get your heart racing. Hang tight and we’ll let you in on our secret soon!

Until then…

Art Loverly Yours,
The EYE BUY ART Team

January is a bit of a non-month we’ve decided, squeezed between December and February as an inconvenience towards our true destination – spring! We know that Valentine’s contrarians say this is a fabricated holiday but we can’t help but succumb to all those deep delicious colours and the ecstasy of it all. A dose of warm kisses as we say goodbye to Non-uary and turn our sights to brighter things.

Whatever your state of romance (our friend Terry D used to call Valentine’s SAD: Singles Awareness Day) we say kiss yourselves with art. We can’t think of a more enduring love gesture.

Will you be my Personalized Valentine?

Make your purchase before the Valentine’s Day shipping deadline of Monday, February 1^st and we will handwrite a personal message from you onto a card and include it in the package to your recipient. It’s easy. Once you’ve made your purchase, send a secret-to-us love note to kissme@eyebuyart.com and consider it done. Now THAT, Paris Hilton, is hot.

If you’re looking for inspiration and a fun distraction from your work routine, try our search tool using the keyword “love”, or search for art by colour. On the other hand, you can relieve the pressure altogether and give your smoky lover a gift certificate instead. You can send those instantly, or download our EYE BUY ART custom design and hand deliver it with a kiss.

News + Inspirations

• Shipping Deadline: Please place your order by Monday, February 1^st to ship on time for Valentine’s Day. There may be wiggle room depending on where you live, but remember we only ship once a week.
• Watch for EYE BUY ARTist Eamon Mac Mahon’s upcoming solo exhibition at Bau-Xi Photo in Toronto. The buzz is building and we are proud to be part of it!
• We think Robyn McCallum’s work makes a Valentimely and interesting addition to the dialogue found on Art Daily about a new exhibition on the history of nudes in photography. Thanks to Glenn McInnes – father of EYE BUY ART’s founder and Robyn McCallum super fan – for scoping that one out. Maybe we will ask him to create a reading list for us!
• We love www.fisheyecorp.com – connection architects, social media experts and frankly, a great inspiration to us. Thank you for your guidance and watch it unfold…

Art Loverly Yours,
The EYE BUY ART Team

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Welcome art collectors into this new decade brimming with optimism. The air is a-sparkle with goodness and to celebrate we bring you our next artist Canadian Eamon Mac Mahon, whose work is the visual counterpart to this optimistic new decade and a perfect way to breathe light into your January.

Dare we say, these images remind us of one of the most famous living artists of all time, Gerhard Richter, who paints from the photographs he has taken. We think Eamon does the reverse, painting these images using his camera. They are universal and hard to place in any particular period of time, somehow capturing a gesture of nature that is both quiet and powerful. Such is the mystery of this wonderful world we live in.

Eamon is the most free-spirited person we know – and his images are a window into the world he experiences. He spends months flying around Northern Canada in a bush plane, and is on his way to Hawaii to continue work on his new series Kalapana. Eamon’s work has been published in The New Yorker, W Magazine and National Geographic and one of his images sold recently for nearly three times its value, raising over $7000 for people living with Aids.

Toronto Airport Installation, 2008                Lost in the clouds                          Eamon Mac Mahon

What’s New

We launched one month ago and since then have shipped prints to Canada, the US, Belgium, the UK and Mexico. Thank you to our first collectors. We love you. Our enormous gratitude also to Seth Godin for the wonderful endorsement “thanking us for what we do” and to the team at Daily Candy, Fashion Magazine and Design Edge for your great coverage. Also check out today’s write up in Vitamin Daily.

Colour-your-world crimson and check out our fancy new search tool – now you can look for art using the colours of the rainbow! And don’t forget, if you’re searching for the perfect gift then maybe you’ve already found it. Our gift certificates are available anytime, in any denomination you choose.

With our enormous gratitude for an inspiring, art-loving first month!

The EYE BUY ART Team

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Insta-Gift Certificates

Stay in your pajamas and skip the mall. Our gift certificates are available in any price denomination you choose, and can be printed and customized or sent to your recipient instantly via email. It’s easy — and the best part is you don’t have to do the deciding. Once your giftee has finished gushing at your remarkable ingeniousness they can just go online and choose the work they want themselves.

Coming Up Next

It is our capital P pleasure to announce that Canadian super-talent Eamon Mac Mahon’s work will be available next on EYE BUY ART in January. We had the distinct honour of working with Eamon when we installed 20 of his grand format aerial photographs along the moving sidewalk at Toronto Pearson International Airport in 2008. His client list reads like the who’s who of the magazine industry — his work has appeared in The New Yorker, W Magazine and National Geographic and he just announced an upcoming solo exhibition at the soon-to-be launched Bau-Xi Photo in Toronto. We can’t share the images yet — but sneaking a peek on Eamon’s site will get you in the high-flying spirit. http://www.eamonmacmahon.com/

Eye Candy

Check it out — EYE BUY ART got a great write up in today’s Boston edition of Daily Candy. Who knew, our walls CAN talk after all! Thank you Trufflepig Travel boys for hooking that one up for us. We love you! Also watch out for an upcoming mention in Vitamin Daily.

Holiday Schedule

Our gifted and genius print team is on a happy holiday hiatus. Please go ahead and place your order but note that our next print run won’t take place again until the first week of January. We will be back on track with our usual weekly schedule then and look forward to filling your hearts with art in 2010.

Until then, our warmest of wishing-wells to you!

Art Loverly Yours,
The EYE BUY ART Team

We are over the moon and into Jupiter at the fantastical and amazing amount of support we’ve received so far – and it’s only DAY FIVE! We had a great write up yesterday in Fashion Magazine and figured we’d hit the jackpot when we received a personal phone call from none other than Seth Godin himself sending us his good wishes.

Holiday Shipping Deadline: Tuesday, December 15^th at 5:00pm

If you want to make sure your special honeysmooch receives their gift in time please make sure to get your holiday purchases in by no later than Tuesday, December 15^th at 5:00pm. There may be a little wiggle room depending on where you live, but remember, we only print orders once a week! For exact shipping times to your location please refer to our dedicated shipping page.

Gift Certificates

All hail the web-programming spirits and our gift-certificatedly talented designer Kelsey Blackwell for making this holiday miracle come true. If you’ve missed the shipping deadline or would rather spend your time knocking back cocktails – no problem – our gift certificates are officially available for your purchasing pleasure. Your loved one is sure to shout out with glee!

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If you haven’t already, have a read through our ART 101 and FAQ pages. If there’s anything further that you’d like to know please – just pop the question. OH! And post your comments. We really do want to know what you think!

Art Loverly Yours,
The EYE BUY ART Team

EYE BUY ART is proud to be part of a growing movement of people who want to make art more accessible, affordable, and fun to buy! We are an online art gallery representing an exciting new generation of emerging photographers who are on of the cusp of significant growth in their career. They are “the ones to watch out for” according to our jury of experts in the field of art and photography.

Limited edition, signed photographs starting at $25 – no kidding!

If you like what you see – WONDERFUL – you’re hired!!  We could really use your help to post, twitter, twink, tickle, feed, fire-away and love this to as many people as possible. We’re counting on you to help us get people buying art. Share the love and post it far and wide.

Give the gift of art!

We will be introducing gift certificates within A DAY OR TWO! Can you imagine – no more scary busy malls full of unhappy Christmas Eve shoppers. No more wedding gift toasters and no more stress about last minute shopping. Follow us on Twitter or join our Facebook page to get the most up-to-date information.

Save on Shipping!

Our web programming elves have been hard at work to allow you to purchase multiple prints at one time. Our 8×10” and 11×14” prints can be grouped and shipped together to a maximum of 4 per package (a $5 packaging/handling fee will be applied to each additional print). If you want to purchase an 8×10″ and an 11×14″ print, and ship them together – no problem – we will package your prints in the largest sized envelope.

So how does it work?

EYE BUY ART is the sister organization to Flash Forward, an annual competition that showcases the future of photography and is considered one of the most important emerging art incubators in the world.  The idea is simple: make art affordable so more people can own it. It’s exciting to collect art, and even more exciting to be a part of an artist’s growth. We will release a new image every single week, direct to your inbox. (Right now, expect a new image to be released once a month or so, as we get our engines going). Make sure to sign up for our newsletter if you haven’t already, so you can get first crack at the editions before they go public.

If you encounter any problems, we really apologize for that. We’re new, so we’re bound to hit a couple of kinks along the way. Let us know so we can fix them.

EYE BUY ART community

We will be launching the EYE BUY ART community in the coming weeks as well. The community will be a lot like Facebook – but for art. This feature will allow you to connect with the artists one-on-one, speak to other collectors, join groups of like-minded thinkers and share your thoughts on photography and people you love. We are also in the planning phase of our EYE BUY ART iphone application. If you have any ideas you’d like to share we’re all ears!

Come and join us! There’s more to explore…..