His tours have repeatedly broken attendance records and been widely acclaimed. He has also exhibited at the world famous ArtScience Museum at Marina Bay Sands in Singapore (November 2012 - May 2013) and Discovery Times Square in New York City (June 2013 - current). In July 2012 Sawaya's Asian tour began with record-breaking shows in Taipei, Kaohsiung and Taichung. The exhibition since traveled around Australia, including stops in Adelaide and at the Sydney Town Hall. Sawaya had his first exhibition in the Southern Hemisphere at Federation Square in Melbourne, Australia in June 2011. " The Art of the Brick" is one of the first major museum exhibition in the world to focus exclusively on the use of Lego building blocks as an art medium. He had his first solo art exhibit in the Spring of 2007 at the Lancaster Museum of Art. "Blue" sold for an undisclosed sum at the Agora Gallery in 2010. His signature pieces include human form sculptures titled "Yellow", "Red" and "Blue". Sawaya's art creations include a 7-foot (2.1 m)-long replica of the Brooklyn Bridge, a life-size tyrannosaurus rex, a 6-foot (1.8 m)-tall Han Solo frozen in carbonite. However, he has been officially recognized by The Lego Group as one of the best Lego builders in the world and is endorsed as a Lego Certified Professional. As a professional artist, Sawaya is not an employee of the toy company. He first came to national attention in 2004, when he left his job as an attorney to work full-time as a Lego artist.Īfter working for the Lego Group less than six months, he branched off and in 2004 opened an art studio in New York City. This book is recommended to Star Wars fans, even if you don't collect LEGO sets.Nathan Sawaya (born July 10, 1973) is an American artist who builds custom three-dimensional sculptures and large-scale mosaics from popular everyday items and is best known for his work with standard Lego building bricks.īorn in Colville, Washington and raised in Veneta, Oregon, Sawaya attended New York University, where he earned bachelor's and law degrees, eventually practicing law at the firm Winston & Strawn in Hollywood. Some unofficial community constructions are also included, such as the life-size LEGO sculpture of Han Solo in carbonite or Mos Eisley diorama. There are only between 4 to 7 designers and their desks are filled with countless LEGO bricks. It sounds really interesting to be working for LEGO. You can read about how they create prototypes and bake the clay. There's also a short interview with the designers of the series. From what I see, there are plenty included, enough for you to shoot your own LEGO Star Wars movie anyway. I've read from other reviews which say that not all the accessories are included, whatever that means. Awesome.Įvery set is provided with their data file and captioned. There are a lot of bricks, from characters like the small Yoda (whose captioned to have sensitive ears) to the mammoth 5195-piece Millennium Falcon with 5195 pieces. It should delight the geek out of fans to see the LEGO incarnation of everything (I think). There's a timeline that shows all the LEGO Star Wars sets, the boxes, from 1999 to 2009, which includes the movie saga, Clone Wars and specialist sets. It's quite thick but actually half the book behind the cover is a pad created to house that small figure. LEGO Star Wars: The Visual Dictionary also comes with an exclusive mini-figure of Luke Skywalker. Here's a great book for all those LEGO Star Wars collectors out there.
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