Award-winning designer brings Lego art to Houston Botanic Garden
The Houston Botanic Garden (HBG) is hosting award winning designer Sean Kenney’s newest exhibit “Nature Connects” until Feb. 19, 2023. The exhibit is described by HBG and Kenney as many works of art made from simple toy blocks to explore the balance of ecosystems and mankind’s relationship with nature to show everything in nature is interconnected in a delicate balance.
Kenney is a certified LEGO professional and is recognized as one of the biggest artists today using the medium of LEGO and has been touring globally since 2012 and was even was a guest-judge on LEGO MASTERS UK. Along with this exhibit in Houston, Texas he also has ongoing exhibitions in St. Louis, Missouri and Palos Verdes, California. He has also authored nine children’s books and has been a frequent collaborator with the LEGO group for 14 years and continues to create amazing and thought provoking art.
The collection is being held in the Susan Garver Family Discovery Garden that wraps around a lagoon with plenty of space to roam and explore and there is even a giant-sized interactive LEGO bricks for children to interact with in the sandpit along with 15 outdoor sculpture to see along the trail with an extra display located in the gift shop.
There were a total of 16 LEGO brick-built sculptures to see from the smallest mouse made up of only 811 LEGO bricks that took 25 hours to build to the largest sculpture of the Monarch on Milkweed made up of 60,549 bricks taking 377 hours to complete. Many of the sculptures were lifelike and it felt aweing standing in some of their presence as the sheer size and structure behind each of them was truly demanding of respect and brought out the inner child in many visitors. The colors of each sculpture were really well chosen and vibrantly made everything non-LEGO seem bland by comparison. Kenney’s work has really brought a newfound wonder to engineering and nature that will inspire many visitors young and old into being nature lovers, and Adult Fans Of LEGO(AFOL) as there are many sets now made specifically for adults.
Kenney’s work can be found in public and private collections in the United States and worldwide as he continues to design from his studio in Brooklyn. The Houston Botanic Garden is located to the UHCL campus than most of Houston’s other cultural attractions and is open Monday-Sunday, 9 a.m.- to 5 p.m., and tickets for students (with student ID) are $10.00, adults $15.00, children $10.00 (Ages 3-15, Infants & toddlers under age 3 are free).
Nature Connects by Sean Kenney at The Houston Botanic Garden
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