Barry Le Va is known for his sculpture and drawing. LeVas work often creates a relationship with his audience through problem solving and investigation, and by bringing the viewer into the artistic experience or concept. His sculpture and drawings are explorations of space, material, and procedure, and he has drawn from many disciplines including Conceptualism, Minimalism and Neo-Constructivism.

Barry LeVa was born in Long Beach, California in 1941. An only child, he spent many of his childhood summer vacations in Yuma, Arizona with his godparents. His godfather, an amateur cartoonist, taught him how to draw. Throughout his high school years, LeVa studied architecture and mathematics, graduating in 1960. His early ambitions to be an...