This week’s Culture Club focuses on artist Nathan Sawaya and his amazing creations made solely out of our all time favorite childhood toy - Lego.
Nathan Sawaya is a New York based artist whose work is currently touring North American musems. The exhibit is called “The Art of the Brick”, and his work includes portraits, small scale sculptures and life sized sculptures.
Here is a current and upcoming schedule of his tour:
CURRENT SHOW
Stamford Museum, Stamford, CT - March 2, 2008 - August 18, 2008
FUTURE SHOWS
The Art and Culture Center, Hollywood, FL – June 6, 2008 – August 10, 2008
The American Swedish Historical Museum, Philadelphia, PA - August 22, 2008 - November 30, 2008
TELUS World of Science Edmonton, Edmonton, Alberta - December 15, 2008 - May 3, 2009
Turtle Bay Exploration Park and Museum, Redding, CA – May 16, 2009 - January 3, 2010
Crown Center, Kansas City, MO - May 23, 2009 - September 7, 2009
Everhart Museum, Scranton, PA - February 4, 2010 - May 2, 2010
Lakeview Museum of Arts and Sciences, Peoria, IL - April 2, 2010 - September 6, 2010
You can see his official website, Nathan Sawaya: Brick Artist, and you can see some of his work below.
“Billiard Balls”
“Monopoly Box”
Nathan pictured with “Iwo Jima Replica”
“Rebirth of New Orleans”
“Untitled” portrait
“Yellow”
This is one of my favorites!
It’s hard for me to pick just a few to post in this blog! He has done a lot of amazing work. Below are some geeky related sculptures he’s created.
“Capcom’s Lost Planet Launch Event”
Halo’s “Master Chief”
“Han Solo in Carbonite”
Original PS3 design controller and Xbox 360 controller
“Liberty Jedi”
Stormtrooper portrait
March 11th, 2008 at 5:28 pm
WOW! Those are awesome!!!
March 11th, 2008 at 6:33 pm
I want the trooper portrait!!
March 11th, 2008 at 8:40 pm
This stuff is amazing! Thanks for writing about it!
March 12th, 2008 at 6:01 am
Very cool. I saw a big of lego land in Orlando a few years ago, it was really neat.
I was never much into legos, more of a lincoln logs and domino rally kind of girl. We used to domion rally our whole basement.
March 13th, 2008 at 3:26 pm
Oh my stars and garters. This stuff is amazing.