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... Read full biography
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,... Read full biography
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... Read full biography
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... Read full biography
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 architect were later abandoned, however, in favor of a fine arts career. In 1963, he moved to Los Angeles where he entered the Otis Art Insti... Read full biography
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Books & Publications (36)
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The Artists Bluebook 34,000 North American Artists to March 2005
2005
AskART.com Inc. - Dunbier, Lonnie Pierson (Editor)
479 pages
Davenport's Art Reference: The Gold Edition
2005
Davenport, Ray
2,421 pages
Who's Who in American Art, 2004 2003 - 2004 (25th Edition)
2004
McGowan, Alison C (Editor)
1,512 pages
Who Was Who in American Art, 1564-1975: Three Volumes
1999
Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor)
3,724 pages
Who's Who in American Art, 1997-1998
1997
Marquis Who's Who
1,515 pages
Art Since 1940 Strategies of Being
1995
Fineberg, Jonathan
496 pages (color)
Who's Who in American Art, 1993-1994, 20th Edition (American Federation of Arts)
1993
Bowker R R
1,473 pages
Contemporary Art 1965-1990
1992
Kurtz, Bruce D
256 pages (color)
Art Since Mid Century 1945 to the Present
1991
Wheeler, Daniel
344 pages (color)
Amerikanische Zeichnungen in den achtziger Jahren (Exhibition catalog)
1990
Smith, Roberta
190 pages
Contemporary Artists (3rd Edition)
1989
Naylor, Colin (editor)
1,059 pages
Minimalism Art of Circumstance
1988
Baker, Kenneth
144 pages (color)
American Art of the 1960s
1988
Sandler, Irving
412 pages (color)
Dictionary of Contemporary American Artists (5th Edition)
1987
Cummings, Paul
653 pages
Postminimalism into Maximalism American Art 1966-1986
1987
Pincus-Witten, Robert
429 pages
Who's Who in American Art-1986 1986
1986
Jaques Cattell Press
1,292 pages
American Art Since 1970, Painting, Sculpture and Drawing Whitney Museum of American Art (Exhibition catalog)
1984
Marshall, Richard
124 pages
Dictionary of American Sculptors: 18th Century to Present
1984
Opitz, Glenn B (editor)
656 pages
The Pluralist Era: American Art 1968-1981
1984
Robins, Corrine
246 pages (color)
Art at Work The Chase Manhattan Collection
1984
Severinghaus, J Walter
333 pages (color)
Shift L A / N Y (Exhibition catalog)
1982
Newport Harbor Art Museum
64 pages (color)
Drawing Acquisitions, 1978-1981 Whitney Museum of American Art
1981
Cummings, Paul
64 pages
Twentieth Century Drawings Selections from the Whitney