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Nathan Sawaya
American Artist
Born: Jul 10, 1973
About Art Bricks Home Me People
Related authors: Andy Warhol Jackson Pollock Jean-Michel Basquiat Jeff Koons Kehinde Wiley Keith Haring Yoko Ono
I was looking to explore the theme of good and evil, so what better inspiration than the comics? I'd developed a relationship with DC and Warner Bros. when I donated a sculpture of Catwoman to the 'We Can Be Heroes' campaign a few years ago. That's what started it. Nathan Sawaya
Good Relationship Good And Evil Better Heroes Evil Looking Few Bros Inspiration Developed Comics Years Years Ago Campaign Than Donated Theme Warner Warner Bros Explore Sculpture Started
I've made a bit of a career taking daunting projects out of Lego. I've done things like a dinosaur skeleton and stuff like that. Nathan Sawaya
Made Projects Bit Out Dinosaur Daunting Taking Stuff Like Done Lego Skeleton Things Career
I see the world in rectangles. If I am talking to someone, I find myself analysing their face, working out how to recreate it in bricks. Nathan Sawaya
Myself World Face Analysing Out Find See Someone Recreate Talking How Am Working Bricks
I do hear from people at my exhibition about seeing these things made from this toy from their childhood, and it brings them back. They'll go and buy a set of Lego from the gift shop because of that nostalgia and seeing it at the art exhibition. Nathan Sawaya
Buy Art People Gift Made Back Seeing About Toy Because Exhibition Go Hear Shop Childhood Lego Nostalgia Them Things Brings Set
There was a time when I was practicing law in New York and I wanted to find something else to do. So I ended up leaving the practice of law to pursue my art and it just happened to be out of Lego bricks. Nathan Sawaya
Art Time Law Practice Else Out Find Something Something Else Pursue New Practicing Leaving Up Ended York Just New York Lego Wanted Happened Bricks
I think watching Channing Tatum caress his Lego Oscar statue will be something I won't forget. Even if I try. Nathan Sawaya
Try Will Think Caress Statue Something His Forget Lego Even Oscar Watching
My work sells for £10,000-plus, but my most lucrative piece was a private project that was sold for more than six figures -dollars, that is. The process of the Lego can take weeks, months, or even days. Each one I deliver to specification to each gallery because they want them brought to them fully formed. Nathan Sawaya
Work Sold Project Months Brought More Weeks Take Deliver Days Most Piece Because Private Dollars Sells Than Six Want Lego Process Formed Them Gallery Figures Fully Even Each Lucrative Each One Specification
So many people have asked me about getting their own LEGO Oscar that I submitted it to LEGO Ideas so that everyone has the ability to get one. Nathan Sawaya
Me People Own Everyone Ability About Ideas Submitted Get Getting So Many People Lego Asked Many Oscar
When I was in South Africa, I was meeting with people who never heard of Lego bricks. And yet, when I was like, 'Here they are,' they immediately got it. They saw the appeal, were snapping bricks and creating their little creations right there immediately. Nathan Sawaya
People South Africa Meeting Saw Immediately Never Like Got Were Heard South Africa Lego Little Creating Creations Who Appeal Bricks Right Here

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