[vnathan]

Yup another one kelly

Nathan Sawaya is a New York-based artist who creates awe-inspiring works out of some of the most unlikely things. His recent North American museum tours feature large-scale sculptures using only toy building blocks. LEGO® bricks to be exact.

Sawaya’s art is currently touring North American museums in a show titled, The Art of the Brick. It’s the only exhibition focusing exclusively on LEGO as an art medium. The creations, constructed from nearly one million pieces, were built from standard bricks beginning as early as 2000.

Born in Colville, Washington and raised in Veneta, Oregon, Sawaya’s childhood dreams were always fun. He drew cartoons, wrote stories, perfected magic tricks and also played with LEGO. Sawaya attended NYU. After college he rediscovered LEGO but not as a toy, but rather as a medium.

Today Sawaya has more than 1.5 million colored bricks in his New York art studio. His work is obsessively and painstakingly crafted and is both beautiful and playful. Sawaya’s ability to transform LEGO bricks into something new, his devotion to scale and color perfection, the way he conceptualizes the action of the subject matter, enables him to elevate an ordinary toy to the status of fine art.

[Faline]

Cool nate!
Love the one with the open head

[ChockFullOfChock]

As artwork it's pretty derivative shit, but as lego it's fucking neat.

[güttsfükk]

gotta love the contrast between the red/grey in the 2nd pic

[osiris]

The first one you mean? It's awesome

[vnathan]

This guy makes thousands of dollars per month....lucky bastard

[Nite]

love the play he uses with colour and structure
very cool

[commondenom]

pretty damn sweet....almost as cool as james mays lego house

http://www.2dayblog.com/2009/09/29/j...ed/#more-12336

[Black Knight]

They are great. As anyone who has played Legos as a child or with their children it's hard enough to build a stinking building let alone some of those figures.

[andee]

really cool post