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Nathan Sawaya Debuts Solo LEGO Exhibit in NYC (Gallery, Sadly, Is Only Brick)

by Matthew Zuras on March 29, 2010 at 02:30 PM

Last week, we had a chance to stop by Agora Gallery in Manhattan to check out the solo debut of Nathan Sawaya and his LEGO sculpture. (Incidentally, we covered Sawaya and his giant LEGO Blackberry earlier this month.) Sawaya and his work have been around since he quit his job as a corporate lawyer back in 2001 to play with bricks. This, however, is the first-ever solo exhibition to be exclusively comprised of LEGO-made art -- in the fancy confines of the Chelsea high-art district, no less.

While he's no Giacometti, Sawaya's outsider-y art is something we can get behind. His sculpture is predominantly figural, taking shape in life-sized representations of bodies in various forms of decomposition. We could infer some rather hackneyed tropes to the meaning of his work, like the fragmentation of the postmodern individual or the commodification of modern art (literally, in mass-produced toys). But we'd rather focus on the form of his sculpture, which takes pixelation to human scale and expresses beautiful curvature from a rectilinear medium. Also, these skulls are pretty rad.

If you live in the greater New York City area and have a chance, you should definitely stop by Agora. (It also makes for a less intimidating gallery experience, if you're not of the Manhattan art-scene stripe but want to peek into that world.) If you're not around the Big Apple, check out the gallery below to see some more of Sawaya's work, as well as a video interview he did on the 'Today Show' last week (after the break).

Nathan Sawaya's LEGO Art




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