Eric Greenberg (Ayay): An artist and sculptor with a purpose
Eric Greenberg has transformed his journey as entrepreneur, humanitarion and visionary author into creating sculptures and paintings that inspire and delight.
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Please meet Eric Greenberg (artistically known as Ayay), a former Silicon Valley internet entrepreneur turned fine artist who is working with the top sculpture production and fabrication shops in the world to create highly chromatic sculptures that combine childlike wonder with the sophistication of high-tech.
Eric and his team are ready to shift gears and expand their network of collectors, galleries, individual and institutional investors, and Web3 technology companies interested in pioneering the next chapter of fine art fundraising, sponsorship, and digital token-based fine art authentication and ownership.
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Ayay—Artist, Humanitarian, Author, Entrepreneur
Eric Greenberg has transformed his journey as an extraordinary internet entrepreneur, humanitarian, and visionary author into creating sculptures and paintings that inspire and delight the world.
A serial entrepreneur, Eric was a pioneer in establishing the commercial internet. He produced six venture-backed businesses—from which he holds twenty patents. Eric rose to the heights of financial success in the 1990s, a level he could never have imagined, only to lose the majority of his net worth in the Internet bubble burst in the early 2000s. By 2004, suffering physically, emotionally, and spiritually, he embarked on a journey of rediscovery and energetic healing.
Artist = Entrepreneur
“As an entrepreneur, I created several companies and inventions from my imagination. Everything started with a piece of paper—an idea. Then, I built it from scratch—from idea to reality, with people, products, and market presence. In 2018, I switched modalities from being a creator of business systems to being a creative artist. These are the same skill sets—different applications and modalities.” —Eric Greenberg
Over the following years, Eric immersed himself in art. He traveled the world to study with South American Incan and jungle shamans in Peru, Kabbalah Rabbis in Israel, Native American Indigenous healers, and teachers of Hindu, Buddhist, and other spiritual paths. This deep connection with the universal human spirit and a desire to communicate from a place of inner consciousness fuels his artistic practice.
Ayay’s Sculpture
Ayay creates luminous, highly chromatic sculptures that combine childlike wonder with the sophistication of high-tech, world-class fabrication by Prototype New York. Each sculpture is a unique creation composed of universal symbols and motifs designed by the artist to communicate harmony and joy in an increasingly divisive world.
“I’ve always cared about the legacy we leave behind. The best way for me to affect the future is through my art.” —Ayay
Each luminous steel sculpture is a unique distillation of his freely imagined paintings into three-dimensional form and translucent, radiant color. Formed from cast, mirror-polished stainless steel coated in translucent layers of radiant color, the sculptures reward physical viewing as they capture and reflect light.
Featured Ayay Masterpiece sculpture—The Star Sirius
For sculpture production and fabrication, Ayay is prduced by Prototype New York, founded by Ted Lawson, who has produced for some of the most important sculptors, gallaries and institutions, including Jeff Koons.
Featured Ayay Masterpiece sculpture—The Tree of Life
Ayay’s works are painted by Alchemy Paintworks in Brooklyn, New York who is seen as the highest artisan quality finishers in the fine art industy. In partcular Alchemy is the masters of translucent paint over polished stainless steel. Alchemy’s exclusive client list includes some of the most influential artist in the world. Prior to founding Alchemy in 2009, Jason Brown worked for nearly a decade at Jeff Koons’ studio, where he was integral in establishing and managing Koons’ state of the art sculpture painting facility.
Aya’s signs of Peace and Love
Inspired in part by the work of the great Impressionist painters he collected and admires, Ayay’s sculptures translate into three dimensions: the transitory experience of light, atmosphere, and emotion—a direct channeling of his intuition and inner spirit.
Ready to be commissioned—The Dragonfly
Ayay is a high-output artist with many paintings and sculpture designs. He has 20 masterpiece designs ready for commission, including The Dragonfly, presented below.
Other sculpture designs up for commission
Paintings
Introducing Symbols of Peace for a New Era
“Beauty is love manifested.”
Luminous, translucent color…
Inspired by the great Impressionists…
The distillation of light…
On a canvas of steel.
Iconic, original imagery…
Radiant, mirrored surfaces…
Resonant with emotion.
The power of art to transform lives…
To speak across generations, cultures, and politics…
To shift consciousness…
To be a positive force in the world.
—Ayay
More on Eric
Eric is the author of Generation We: How Millennial Youth Are Taking Over America and Changing Our World Forever, a critically acclaimed and award-winning book describing the political and social shift driven by 95 million US millennials coming of age.
Eric has also been an active humanitarian and has donated to a variety of charities focused on ending suffering and inspiring new opportunities for the disadvantaged. Eric was a trustee of the USC Shoah Foundation for Visual History, focused on genocide prevention, and was honored with the organization’s Ambassador to Humanity Award in 2001. He endowed the Human Genetics Lab at UC San Francisco, where the lab was named in his honor.
In addition to sitting on the edge of modern art, Eric is President and CEO of Innovation Investments, LLC - a business creation and investment company. Eric lives and works in Miami, Florida. eric@egreenberg.com
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