‘Art of the Brick’ is now at Museum of Science and Industry — from little Legos, eye-popping creations

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Now open at the msichicago, “The Art of the Brick” is a visual playground for the young and young at heart, built brick by brick by lawyer-turned-artist NathanSawaya.

The exhibition, constructed entirely from Lego bricks, was launched in 2007 and, through Sept. 5, has finally found a home in Chicago.

American Gothic by Grant Wood in the"The Art of the Brick," the world's largest Lego exhibition at the Museum of Science and Industry in Chicago on Feb. 10, 2022. The exhibit then transitions to original pieces. Equally captivating, these also give better insight into Sawaya’s zeitgeist. He admittedly loves to create human figures, which he does prolifically and often in monochromatic tones. At the entrance to the second of two rooms housing the exhibition is “Yellow,” lauded as one of Sawaya’s most famous works and with good reason. The sculpture depicts a man cracking his chest open as Lego bricks tumble onto the pedestal the bust stands upon.

 

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