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Nathan Sawaya discusses his journey to becoming a professional Lego artist and his world-touring “The Art of the Brick” ...
Sometimes, artists experience a creative block. But Nathan Sawaya gets creative with blocks. His “The Art of the Brick” ...
As a child, the clink of Legos knocking around a big bin stirred Nathan Sawaya’s creativity. Not much has changed. The 39-year-old Manhattan artist stores more than 1.5 million Legos in his L… ...
Nathan Sawaya makes a living playing with Legos. Sawaya, 42, began his career as a lawyer on Wall Street. But he was constantly dogged by a yearning to do more creative work.
Ever since his boyhood in the rural town of Veneta, Ore. (population 2,755), Sawaya had been hooked on Legos. It started on Christmas 1978, when 5-year-old Nathan was given his first set of bricks.
Nathan Sawaya got a Lego set from his grandparents when he was 5. While most kids outgrow the toy building bricks, this 36-year-old artist is still playing with them. The Manhattanite has made a ...
Artist Nathan Sawaya builds sculptures and wall paintings out of LEGOs, the toy building block that's been a creative outlet for kids and adults and the bane of shoeless parents since the 1930s.
Nathan Sawaya has turned playing with toys into a lucrative career. The former New York City corporate lawyer creates sculptures made entirely of Lego bricks and glue and showcases them around the ...
The exhibition, created by California artist Nathan Sawaya, will be on display in the brand-new Capitol District, in future retail space at 222 N. 12th St., from Nov. 17 through mid-February.
Sawaya’s first solo exhibit was in 2007 at the Lancaster Museum of Art in Pennsylvania. He expected it to be his last, but he was gratified by the positive reaction from children and adults.
Sawaya may be best known for designing, building and placing life-size Lego statues of people on park benches around the country, as well as for his “hugger” series of smaller human statues ...
Nathan Sawaya, an artist whose medium is LEGOs, created a life-size, interactive version of the iconic coffee shop to debut in Las Vegas Central Perk is coming to Las Vegas to celebrate the recent ...