Sean Kenney’s LEGO® sculpture at Microsoft Gallery for Internet Week
Sean Kenney creates art with LEGO® bricks. And he’s been doing it since he was two. He brought four recent sculptures to the Microsoft Gallery sponsored by J&R.
One of his sculptures, American Flag SUV, visualizes his current concern over transportation issues, specifically, the way our modern world has been transformed, perhaps, deformed to accommodate automobiles.
Kenney, a fan of livable streets, feels that, as a society, we need to design for people, not for cars. He says the age of cities can be told by it’s relation to cars. If you can get around without a car, the city is pre-auto. He welcomes cities reclaiming territory for people, such as New York’s recent reclamation of Times Square.
A native New Yorker, Sean is pleased to have recently moved back to NYC after two years in Texas, where he observed oppressive car-oriented development. Kenney, laughs, “if you have to drive five miles at seventy miles per hour through a densely developed area to the first traffic light before you can buy a gallon of milk, something wrong with this country.”
His graphic design background encourages him to tell a clear story with his art. Recently, with his LEGO sculpture, he’s been trying to take a half-step back, “leaving it a little loose.” Basically, LEGOs are whimsy. Kids love them because you can tell how it was put together, kids can be inspired to make it themselves.
Sean likes to use the limited palette of LEGO bricks as a painter in 3D. His American Flag colored SUV is an example and one of the pieces showing at the Microsoft Gallery noon to 7 pm through Monday, June 8th. See the gallery event schedule for Internet Week programs.
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