Barry Le Va
Born: 1941
Hometown: Long Beach, CA
Lives and Works: New York, NY
Education:
MFA, Otis Art Institute of Los Angeles County, Los Angeles, CA, 1967
B.A., Otis Art Institute of Los Angeles County, Los Angeles, CA, 1964
Los Angeles College of Art & Design, Los Angeles, CA, 1963
About The Artist
Barry Le Va is an artist, painter, and sculptor whose abstract sculptures and installations are featured in major art collections around the world. He became one of the first so-called "Process" artists in 1966 with his "scatter pieces," made by scattering seemingly random scraps on the floor of otherwise empty rooms. Since then, Le Va has continued his practice, creating sculpture that exists in dialogue with the space it occupies, incorporating elements inspired by music into his work, and maintaining physical evidence of the artist and his process in his art.
Galleries
Mary Boone Gallery, New York, NY
David Nolan, New York, NY
Select Permanent Collections
Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY
The Chase Manhattan Bank, New York, NY
Museu Serralves: Museum of Contemporary Art, Portugal
The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
The Parrish Art Museum, Southampton, NY
The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH
Wexner Center for the Visual Arts, Columbus, OH
The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
Works by the Artist
