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1941 Long Beach, California - 2021 Bronx, New York. Known for: Post-minimal art expression, installations, floor pieces, collage, sculpture.
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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Keywords (22)
Art Method
- •Collage and/or Decoupage
- •Drawing, Draftsmanship, Draughtsman
- •Easel Painting
- •Installation Art
- •Murals: Design, Painting, Fresco, Mosaic, Glass
- •Sculpture, Three Dimensional Forms, Sculptor
Art Media
Art Style
- •Abstraction, Abstract
- •Minimalism, Minimalist
- •Pure Abstraction, Line, Shape, Color, Texture
Art School
- •Otis Art Institute, (Otis College of Art & Design) Student
Awards/Recognition
- •John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Fellowship
Chronology
- •Early 21st Century
- •Late 20th Century After 1950
Added Description
- •Abstract Sculpture Specialty
- •Abstraction Specialty
Exhibition of Museum
- •Whitney Biennial Museum of American Art