The Art of the Brick^®

December 5, 2009 through March 14, 2010

Some artists use paint. Others use bronze. But lawyer-turned-artist Nathan Sawaya builds whimsical, awe-inspiring masterpieces with plastic bricks—LEGO^® bricks, to be exact!

Marvel at thirty eye-popping sculptures—giant heads, bodies, wall portraits, and more—created from nearly one million colorful LEGO bricks. Strong is the ONLY stop in upstate New York for this extraordinary touring art show.

Sawaya’s life-sized human figures emerge from LEGO bricks in provocative and sometimes disturbing poses, bringing LEGO brick building to a high art form. His vividly-colored renditions of everyday objects are exuberant and expressive and include a Monopoly^® box, a globe, a sunflower, and a six-foot-tall yellow pencil that has, written in the big pad it is standing on, the word that describes the entire exhibit: “fun.”

To learn more about Nathan Sawaya, visit www.brickartist.com.

Interviews with Nathan:

• Extreme Makeover: Home Edition
  Nathan helps create a special room on Extreme Makeover: Home Edition!
  
  
• The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson
  Pictures from the rehearsal of Nathan's appearance on The Late Late Show With Craig Ferguson.
  
  
• NY1 Piece
  NY1 Tech Beat Reporter Adam Balkin introduces us to a Manhattan man building a computer guaranteed to be one of a kind.
  
  
• The Late Show with David Letterman

 

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