on February 16, 2017 at 1:27 PM, updated This is not your childhood LEGO display. "The Art of the Brick," the latest exhibit at the Oregon Museum of Science and Industry, is a full-out LEGO art extravaganza, featuring original sculptures, recreations of famous paintings and a building area for kids and adults. All of it comes courtesy of Nathan Sawaya, an Oregon-raised artist who has made a career out of turning the toy building blocks into a legitimate artistic medium. The exhibit will be open to the public from Feb. 18 through May 29, 2017, at OMSI, and costs $3.75 to $5.75 more than the general admission price for the Portland museum. The goal is not just to show his work the public, Sawaya explained, but to get people thinking and talking about art. "It's my goal as an artist to inspire," he said at an OMSI media preview Thursday. "Hopefully spark some conversation, explore art in a different way." Kids and adults who feel inspired have an opportunity to get building themselves at OMSI's Brick Lab at the end of the exhibit.
Bins full of LEGO bricks line tables around the area, for free construction or guided step-by-step creations. Sawaya said he has a mantra, "art is not optional," that came to him after leaving a job as a corporate attorney in New York to work on his craft full-time. He makes his LEGO sculptures out of the same bricks everybody else uses, though he pieces them together with glue for stability. A life-size human sculpture uses about 15,000 to 20,000 bricks, and takes him two to four weeks to complete. There are plenty of life-size sculptures in "The Art of the Brick," including his iconic work "Yellow," and recreations of several famous paintings and sculptures. It also features a 20-foot tyrannosaurus rex skeleton and some of his earlier, smaller works of art. At the media preview, Sawaya also unveiled a new sculpture, "Homecoming," made especially for his return to Oregon. The piece features a life-size human form colored with the pattern of the PDX airport carpet.
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