Nathan Sawaya is an artist in New York City who creates detailed and intricate sculptures using LEGO blocks. His bio explains:
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.
According to journalist Scott Jones, “Sawaya is a surrealist mash-up of forms and artists. Imagine Frank Lloyd Wright crossed with Ray Harryhausen, or Auguste Rodin crossed with Shigeru Miyamoto, and you start to get a sense of where Sawaya is coming from.”
His first solo exhibit is on display at the Agora Gallery in New York City until April 13th. To see more examples of Nathan’s LEGO work, check out the gallery on his webpage.
