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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.

Nathan Sawaya

I wonder what it costs to buy 1.5 million lego bricks.

*falls in love*

wow there's some shit in that lego collection that I don't understand how one person would have the patience to complete. wonder what kinda glue he uses to keep the lego pieces together, a few of those defy lego gravity

I want to be the guy to Destroy all of his Art with a baseball bat

I made a really cool fire truck with legos recently.

awesome! i love lego. i used to build rube goldberg contraptions out of lego when i was a little kid, my best one:

just recently made a lego usb flash drive:

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  On 3/13/2010 at 12:34 AM, troon said:

  On 3/13/2010 at 12:34 AM, troon said:

  On 3/13/2010 at 12:34 AM, troon said:

OMFG TRIPLEPOST

  On 3/13/2010 at 12:34 AM, Charles Nelson Reilly said:

awesome! i love lego. i used to build rube goldberg contraptions out of lego when i was a little kid, my best one:

 

Reminds me of..

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e7bXSR6II-U

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hfWIyIW5_aA

love legos, all time favorite past time as a kid,.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9BXUEkJj5t4

  On 3/13/2010 at 1:02 AM, scones to die for said:

  On 3/13/2010 at 12:34 AM, Charles Nelson Reilly said:

awesome! i love lego. i used to build rube goldberg contraptions out of lego when i was a little kid, my best one:

 

Reminds me of..

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e7bXSR6II-U

nice. i've seen that once before but completely forgot about it

LEGO™ (nsfw)

  On 3/13/2010 at 4:52 AM, troon said:

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My last.fm avatar:

Lego Digital Designer

http://ldd.lego.com

Fun if you want to geek out for a bit.

I love Lego! Sometimes I wish I could go back in time, just so that I would have an excuse to use it without looking odd.