NYAB Event - Nathan Sawaya "Brick by Brick: the LEGO Brick"

Nathan Sawaya "Brick by Brick: the LEGO Brick"

Agora Gallery

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Nathan Sawaya has taken a childhood fascination with a ubiquitous building block and transformed it into a captivating artistic medium. Sawaya constructs large-scale sculptures with LEGO(R) bricks, utilizing their multifarious shapes and brilliant colors to create a wide range of subjects including desserts, planets, pop culture icons, and even a life-sized self-portrait. Sawaya, though working with a decidedly unyielding medium, is able to create expressionist images that affect lithe curves and forms. Within his oeuvre, one is struck by the endless possibilities of this medium; it is as limitless as his fertile imagination.

Moreover, Sawaya’s work is a testament to the bricks as a means for creating fine art, something that has great power, as is indicated by viewer’s reactions. “I am seeing children and families who have never stepped into an art gallery in their lives being drawn in because of my work.” His upcoming premier marks the first occasion of a solo exhibition comprised entirely of LEGO bricks in New York. Sawaya lives and works in Manhattan.

[Image: Nathan Sawaya "Untitled 4" Plastic Bricks 26 x 27 x 14 in.]