Barry Le Va

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Chronology

   
1941
  Born in Long Beach, California
Resides in New York City
   
 

Education

   
1960-63
  California State University, Long Beach
1963
  Los Angeles College of Art & Design
1964-67
  Otis Art Institute of Los Angeles County, Received BFA-MFA 1967
   
 

Grants

   
1968
  Received Young Talent Grant, Los Angeles County Museum, Los Angeles
1968-70
  Instructor Minneapolis College of Art & Design
1973-74
  Taught Advanced Sculpture, Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey
1974
  Received Guggenheim Fellowship for Sculpture
1976
  Received National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship
1976
  Taught Graduate Sculpture at Yale University
   
 

Solo Exhibitions

     
2005
  “Barry Le Va” in cooperation with David Nolan. Mary Boone, New York, NY
“Barry Le Va: Wagner,” Danese, New York, NY
“Accumulated Vision,” Institute of Contemporary Art, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA
“Barry Le Va,” Nolan/Eckman Gallery, New York, NY
2004
  Museu Serralves, Porto, Portugal (touring).
2003
  “A Survey of Drawings 1966-2003 and Two New Scultpures,” Galerie Juerg Judin, Vienna, Austia
“Scrapbooks: Books to Drawings 1998-2003,” Cabinet des estampes du Musée d’art et d’histoire, Geneva, Switzerland
Galerie Fred Jahn, Munich, Germany
2002
  Nolan/Eckman Gallery, New York
2001
  “Barry Le Va: Black on Blue”, Danese, New York
“Recent Drawings/Early Works,” Nolan/Eckman Gallery, New York
“Drawings 1966-2000,” Galerie Fred Jahn, Munich, Germany
2000
  Galerie Fred Jahn, Munich, Germany
Nelly Aman Gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel
1999
  "Diagrammatic Silhouettes: Large Scale Drawings From 1987", Danese, New York
"Catalogued Confined", Stephen Wirtz Gallery, San Francisco, California
“Barry Le Va,” Malmö Konsthall, Sweden
1998
  "Smatterings: Works on Paper 1967 -1998", Sonnabend Gallery, New York
1997
  "Diagrams of Thought", Nolan/ Eckman Gallery, New York
"Recovered Catalogued Confined", Danese, New York
1996
  Galerie Zell-am-See, Austria
"Bunker Drawings", Galerie Fred Jahn, Munich
"Sculpture and Drawings", Georges Philippe Valloise, Paris
1995
  "Barry Le Va: Pages from a Sketchbook-Japanese Lacquerware", Nolan/ Eckman Gallery, New York
Sonnabend Gallery, New York
1994
  "Barry Le Va: Zeichnungen 1965-1993", Staatlichen Graphischen Sammlung München
Staadtischen Museum Leverkusen, Schloss Morsbroich
1993
  "Barry Le Va: Collage and Drawing 1988-1993", Nolan/ Eckman Gallery, New York
Galerie Georges-Philippe Valloise, Paris
1992
  Galerie Fred Jahn, Munich, Germany
1991
  Sonnabend Gallery, New York
1990
  "Barry Le Va: The Texas Variations", David Nolan Gallery, New York
1989
  "Barry Le Va: Woodblock Prints and Related Drawings", David Nolan Gallery, New York
"Barry Le Va Sculpture", Daniel Weinberg Gallery, Los Angeles
"Barry Le Va: Glass, Bullets, Cleavers, 1968-1970", Staadtisches Museum Abteiberg, Mönchengladbach, Germany
"Sculpture", Texas Gallery, Houston, Texas
1988
  Rijksmuseum Kroller-Muller, Otterlo, The Netherlands
Sonnabend Gallery, New York
"Barry Le Va 1966-1988", Carnegie-Mellon University Art Gallery, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania; Newport Harbor Art Museum, Newport Beach, California; High Museum of Art, Atlanta, Georgia; Neuberger Museum, State University of New York, Purchase, New York.
1987
  Galerie Fred Jahn, Munich, Germany
1986
  Daniel Weinberg Gallery, Los Angeles
Sonnabend Gallery, New York
1985
  Texas Gallery, Houston, Texas
1983
  Sonnabend Gallery, New York
1982
  P. S. #1, Long Island City, New York
Beaver College, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Yarlow-Salzman Gallery, Toronto, Canada
Daniel Weinberg Gallery, San Francisco and Los Angeles, California
1981
  Sonnabend Gallery, New York
The New Gallery, Cleveland, Ohio
1980
  Nigel Greenwood Gallery, London, England
Michelle Lachowsky, Bruxelles, Belgium
Los Angeles Institute of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, California
Otis Art Institute, Parsons School of Design, Los Angeles, California
1979
  The New Museum of Art, New York
Hartnell College Gallery, Salinas, California
Sonnabend Gallery, New York
1978
  Texas Gallery, Houston, Texas
Sonnabend Gallery, New York
1977
  Wright State University, Dayton, Ohio
1976
  Sonnabend Gallery, New York
Ricke Gallery, Cologne, Germany
Sonnabend Gallery, Paris
Texas Gallery, Houston, Texas
Claire Copley Gallery, Los Angeles
Daniel Weinberg Gallery, San Francisco, California
1975
  Daniel Weinberg Gallery, San Francisco, California
Claire Copley Gallery, Los Angeles
Bykert Gallery, New York
Espace 5, Montreal, Canada
Musee d'Art Contemporain, Montreal, Canada
1974
  Texas Gallery, Houston, Texas
Joseloff Gallery, Hartford Art School, Hartford, Connecticut
Bykert Gallery, New York
Toselli Gallery, Milan, Italy
1973
  Felix Handshin Gallery, Basel, Switzerland
Ricke Gallery, Cologne, Germany
Zwirner Gallery, Cologne Germany
Bykert Gallery, New York
1972
  Ricke Gallery, Cologne, Germany
Bykert Gallery, New York
Ursula Wevers Gallery Projection, Cologne, Germany
1971
  Ricke Gallery, Cologne, Germany
Nigel Greenwood Gallery, London, England
University of Utrecht, The Netherlands
1970
  Ricke Gallery, Cologne, Germany
1969
  Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, Minnesota
Minneapolis Institute of Art, Minneapolis, Minnesota
   
 

Selected Group Exhibitions

     
2004
  "Moved," Hunter College, City University of New York
"Symmetries:Siah Armajani, Richard Artschwager, Barry Le Va, Sol Lewitt
Sculpture and drawings," Senior and Shopmaker, New York
2003
  “Black/White,’” Danese, New York
2002
  “Phenomenal Bodies,” Drammens Museum, Norway
“From Pop to Now,” Wexner Center for the Arts, Columbus, Ohio
“Five Sculptors Drawing: Drawings from the Seventies,” Nolan/Eckman
Gallery, New York
2000
  "Afterimage: Drawing Through Process", Contemporary Arts Musum, Houston
"Retrospective, Sonnabend", New York
"Topologies", White Box, New York
1999
  "Circa 1968", Fundacao de Serralves, Porto, Portugal
"Walking", Danese, New York
“Drawings from the Sixties: Mel Bochner, Barry Le Va, Keith Sonnier, Richard
Tuttle, Curt Marcus Gallery, New York
1998
  "Bill Jensen, Barry Le Va, Pat Steir New Work", Danese, New York
"Deep Thought II", Basilico Fine Arts, New York
"Large Scale Works on Paper", Danese, New York
“Summer Group Show,” Nolan/Eckman Gallery, NY
1997
  "Laying Low", Kunstnernes Hus, Oslo
“Drawings,” Nolan/Eckman Gallery, NY
1996
  "Barry Le Va, Fred Sandback", Verein fur Original-Radierung, Munich
"Painterly Thought: Five American Artists in Dialogue. Ross Bleckner, Denise Green, Alex Katz, Dorothea Rockburne, Barry Le Va", Raab Galerie, Berlin
"Sammlung Sonnabend", Deichtorhallen, Hamburg
1995
  "1995 Biennial Exhibition", Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
"Drawings from a Private Collection", Nolan/ Eckman Gallery, New York
"Mapping: A Response to MOMA", American Fine Arts, Co., Colin de Land Fine Art, New York
"Endurance: The Information", Exit Art, New York
"Attitudes/ Sculptures, 1963-1972," CAPC Musee d'Art Contemporain, Bordeaux, France
1994
  "Fine Lines", Anthony Slayter-Ralph, Santa Barbara, California
Sonnabend Gallery, New York
1993
  "European and American Drawings 1961-1969", Nolan/ Eckman Gallery, New York
"Barry Le Va: Drawings for works in Progress and Young-Jae Lee: Ceramics", Nolan/ Eckman Gallery, New York
"Just Art", 110 Greene Street, New York
"Floor Sculpture", Le Consortium, Dijon, France
"Drawings: 30th Anniversary Exhibition", Leo Castelli Gallery, New York
1992
  "American Art: 1930-1970", Lingotto, Torino, Italy
The New Museum Auction: 15th Anniversary Benefit Auction, New York
1991
  "New Editions", Nigel Greenwood Inc., London, England
"Mel Bochner, Carroll Dunham, Barry Le Va, Terry Winters", Galerie Faust, Geneva, Switzerland
"Immaterial/ Objects: Works from the Permanent Collection of the Whitney Museum of American Art", Whitney Museum of American Art Downtown at Federal Reserve Plaza; Equitable Center; Philip Morris, New York
"A View from the Sixties: Selections from the Leo Castelli Collection and the Michael and Illeana Sonnabend Collection", Guild Hall, East Hampton, New York
1990
  "The New Sculpture 1965-1975: Between Geometry and Gesture", The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; The Museum of contemporary Art, Los Angeles, California
"Concept-Decoratif: Anti-formalist Art of the 70's", Nahan Contemporary, New York
"Conceptual Art, Conceptual Forms", Galerie 1900-2000, Paris, France; Galerie Faust, Geneva, Switzerland (with Mel Bochner, Carroll Dunham, Terry Winters)
"Grounded: Sculpture on the Floor", The University of Michigan, Museum of Art, Ann Arbor, Michigan
"Geometric Abstraction", Greene Gallery, Bay Harbor Islands, Florida
"Between Geometry and The Gesture", Galerie Georges-Philippe Valloise, Paris, France
1989
  "Works on Paper", Marc Richards Gallery, Los Angeles, California
"New Works by Gallery Artists", Sonnabend Gallery, New York
"A Decade of American Drawing: 1980-1989", Daniel Weinberg Gallery, Los Angeles, California
1988
  "Sonnabend Collection", Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid, Spain; CAPC Musee d'Art Contemporain, Bordeaux, France; Art Cologne, Cologne, Germany; Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin, Germany Galleria Nazionale d'Arte Moderna, Rome, Italy;Musee d'Art Moderna e Contemporanea, Trent, Italy; Musee Rath, Geneva, Switzerland; Sezon Museum of Art, Tokyo; The Miyagi Museum of Art, Sendai, Japan; The Fukuyama Museum of Art, Hiroshima, Japan; The National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto, Japan; Sonnabend Gallery, New York
"Three Decades: The Oliver-Hoffman Collection", The Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago
"Recent American Prints", Galerie Fred Jahn, Munchen, Germany
1987
  "1967: At the Crossroads", Institute of Contemporary Art, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia
"Drawings", Sulvia Cordish fine Art, Baltimore, Maryland
"Points of Contact", Laurie Ruben Gallery, New York
"Knoebel, Le Va, Nauman", Barbara Gladstone Gallery, New York
"Drawings from the Eighties", Carnegie Mellon University Art Gallery, Pittsburgh
"Early Concepts from the Last Decade", Holly Solomon Gallery, New York
"Fall Invitational", The Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Ridgefield, Connecticut
"Strong Statements in Black and White", James Goodman Gallery, New York
1986
  "American Eccentric Abstraction", Blum Helman Gallery, New York
"Art From Two Continents", Bruce Helander Gallery, Palm Beach, Florida
"Between Geometry and the Gesture: American Sculpture 1965-75", Palacio De Velazquez Parque Del Retiro, Madrid, Spain
"Europe/ America", Museum Ludwig, Cologne, Germany
1985
  Margaret Roeder Gallery, New York University, New York
1984
  "Summer Group Show", Sonnabend Gallery, New York
"Large Drawings", Zilkha Gallery, Wesleyan University, Middletown, Connecticut
"Minding Measure: Measuring Mind", Islip Art Museum, East Islip, New York
"Large Drawings: Le Va, Morris, Naumann, Serra", Renaissance Society, University of Chicago, Chicago
1983
  "Object, Structure, Artiface", University of South Florida Art Galleries, Tampa, Florida
"Language, Drama, Source & Vision", The New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York
"Sculptor as Draftsman", Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
"Drawing Conclusions, A Survey of American Drawings 1958-1983", Daniel Weinberg Gallery, Los Angeles and San Francisco, California
"Shift", Neuberger Museum, Purchase, New York
"Varieties of Sculptural Ideas", Max Hutchinson Gallery, New York
"Young Talent Awards", Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles
1982
  "Document (7)", Kassel, Germany
"Prints by Contemporary Sculptors", Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Connecticut
"Abstract Drawings 1911-1981", Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
"Great Big Drawings", Hayden Gallery, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts
"Shift LA-NY", Newport Harbor Art Museum, Newport Beach, California
"20th Century Drawings ", Daniel Weinberg Gallery, San Francisco, California
1981
  "Working Drawings," Hunter College, New York
"Drawing Distinctions (Tendencies in American Drawings of The Seventies)",
Louisiana Museum, Denmark; Kunsthalle Basel, Switzerland; Stadtische Galerie, Lenbachhaus, Munich, Germany
"Variants: Drawings by Sculptors", Sewall Art Gallery, Rice University, Houston, Texas
"Schemes: A Decade of Installation Drawings", Elise Meyer Gallery, New York
"New Dimensions in Drawing", Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Ridgefield, Connecticut
"Summer Group Show", Sonnabend Gallery, New York
"Contemporary Drawings", Edward Thorp Gallery, New York
"Drawing Acquisition", Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
1980
  "Pittsburgh Plan for Art", Pittsburgh
"Reasoned Space", Center for Creative Photography, University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona
"Drawings: The Pluralist Decade", Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy; ICA, Philadelphia
"Summer Group Show", Sonnabend Gallery, New York
Ed Thorp Gallery, New York
1979
  "Drawings About Drawing Today", The William Hayes Ackland Memorial Art Center, Chapel Hill, North Carolina
"Traditions in Minimalism", Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Ridgefield, Connecticut
"Summer Group Exhibition", Sonnabend Gallery, New York
1978
  "Summer Group Exhibition", Sonnabend Gallery, New York
"Installation", Tampa Bay Art Center, Tampa, Florida
"New York Now", Phoenix Art Museum, Phoenix, Arizona
Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC
"Contemporary Drawing New York", University of California at Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, California
"Document (6)", Kassel, Germany
1977
  "Andre, Le Va, Long", Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC
"1977 Whitney Biennial", The Whiney Museum of American Art, New York
"Drawings (Barry Le Va, Sol Lewitt) ", Daniel Weinberg Gallery, San Francisco, California
"Installations (Andrea Blum Freya Hansell, Barry Le Va)", The Renaissance Society, University of Chicago, Chicago
"3 Installations (Vito Acconci, Mel Bochner, Barry Le Va)", Sonnabend Gallery, New York
1976
  Renaissance Society, university of Chicago, Chicago
Suzanne Hilberry Gallery, Birmingham, Michigan
"Group Exhibition", Broxton Gallery, Los Angeles
"200 Years of American Sculpture", Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
Rene Block Gallery, Berlin, Germany
"Line", Visual Arts Museum, Philadelphia College of Art, Philadelphia
1975
  "Mel Bochner, Barry Le Va, Dorothea Rockburne, Richard Tuttle", The Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati, Ohio
"Fourteen Artists", Baltimore, Museum of Art, Baltimore, Maryland
"U. S. A. Drawings III", Stadtisches Museum Leverkusen, Schloss Morsbroich, Germany
1974
  "71st American Exhibition", Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago
"Drawings 70's", Hartford Art School, Hartford, Connecticut
1973
  "Options and Alternatives", Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Connecticut
"American Drawings 1963-73", Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
"Drawings", Bykert Gallery, New York
1972
  "Document (5)", Kassel, Germany
1971
  "American Drawings ", Ricke Gallery, Cologne, Germany
"Whitney Sculpture Annual", Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
"Seven Artists, 7 Works", Ricke Gallery, Cologne, Germany
"Prospect", Kunsthalle, Dusseldorf, Germany
1970
  "955,000", Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver, Canada
"Art in the Mind", Allen Art Museum, Oberlin, Ohio
"Projections", La Jolla Museum of Art, San Diego, California
"Nine Artists, Nine Spaces", Minnesota State Arts Council, Minneapolis, Michigan
"Information", Museum of Modern Art, New York
1969
  "Conception-Perception", San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco
"Appearing-Disappearing Object", Newport Center of Arts, Balboa, California
"Anti-Illusion: Procedure and Materials", Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
"557,087", Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, Washington
1968
  "2 Painters, 1 Sculptor", California State College, Los Angeles, California
1967
  Lytton Center of Visual Arts, Los Angeles, California
   
 

Selected Bibliography - Books and Exhibition Catalogs

   
1995
  Fineberg, Jonathan. Art Since 1940 -Strategies of Being. Prentice Hall, Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey.
Klaus Kertess, John Ashbery, Gerald M. Edelman. 1995 Whitney Biennial. The Whitney Museum of American Art, Dist. by Harry N. Abrams, Inc., New York
1992
  Kunst werkt: Art Works: International modern art in the industrial working environment, an experiment over more than thirty years, Peter Stuyvesant Foundation, Amsterdam, Holland
Le Va, Barry. Barry Le Va: Dreaded Intrusions -Institutional Templates. Verlag Fred Jahn, Munich, Germany
1991
  Art since Mid-Century: 1945 to the Present, by Daniel Wheeler, The Vendome Press, New York
1990
  The New Sculpture 1965-1975: Hesse, Smithson, Tuttle, Nauman, Serra, Le Va, Saret, Sonnier, Benglis, Shapiro, The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
1989
  Barry Le Va: Glas, Geschosse, Beile, 1968-1970", Stadtisches Museum Monchengladbach, Germany
1988
  Barry Le Va, Rijsmuseum Kroller-Muller, Otterlo, Holland, January 30 to March 14, 1988
Barry Le Va: 1966-1988, Carnegie Mellon Art Gallery, Pittsburgh, Carnegie Mellon University Press
1986
  Between Geometry and the Gesture: American Sculpture 1965-1975, Palacio De Velasquez, Parque Del Retiro, Madrid
1982
  Documenta GmbH (7), Kassel, West Germany
1981
  Schemes, Elise Meyer Inc. & Shelly Rice, New York
Selection from the Chase Manhattan Bank Art Collection, University Gallery, Amherst University of Massachusetts
New Dimensions in Drawing 1950-1980, The Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Ridgefield, Connecticut
1980
  Explorations in the 70's, Pittsburgh Plan for Art, Essay by Robert Rosenblum
1979
  Barry Le Va: Drawings 1967-College, Salinas, California
1977
  Documenta GmbH (6), Kassel, West Germany
Pincus-Witten, Robert. Postminimalism. New York: Out of London Press, 1977. (Article entitled "Barry Le Va: The Invisibility of Content")
Wright State Universities Art Galleries. Barry Le Va -Accumulated Vision: Extended Boundaries. Dayton, Ohio; 1977. (Essay by William Spurlock)
1976
  Whitney Museum of American Art. 200 Years of American Sculpture, NY: 1976, See essay by Marcia Tucker.
Corcoran Gallery of Art. Andre, Le Va, Long. Washington, DC: 1976. Preface by JaneLivingston.
Philadelphia College of Art. Line. 1976. (Exhibition organized for the Visual Arts Museum by Janet Kardon.)
1975
  Montreal, Canada. Musee D'Art and Espace 5.
1974
  John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts. Art Now '74: A Celebration of the American Arts. Washington, DC: 1974.
Plagens, Peter. Sunshine Muse: Contemporary Art on the West Coast. New York Praeger, 1974.
1973
  Whitney Museum of American Art. American Drawings 1963-1973
1972
  Documenta GmbH 5. Kassel, West Germany
1970
  Whitney Museum of American Art. Contemporary American Sculpture, New York: 1970
Hunter, Sam. American Art of the 20th Century. New York: H. Abrams
1969
  Whitney Museum of American Art. Anti-Illusion: Procedures, Materials. New York: 1969, Essays by James Monte and Marcia Tucker
   
 

Publications by the Artist

   
1975
  Le Va, Barry. "Notes by the Artist", in Bochner, Le Va, Rockburne, Tuttle. The Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati, Ohio: 1975, pp. 16-24.
1971
  Le Va, Barry. "Notes on a Piece by Barry Le Va: Extended Vertex Meetings: blocked, blown outward", Studio International, vol. 182, no. 938, November 1971, pp. 178-9.
1969
  "Barry Le Va", Design Quarterly, vol. 74/ 75, pp. 46-57.
   
 

Bibliography - Reviews

     
2004
  Smith, Roberta. "The Man Who Made Sculpture Out of Meat Cleaves," The New York Times, Sunday, September 12, 2004, p. 92 AR, ill.
1999
  Mac Adam, Alfred. "Barry Le Va", ARTnews, November 1999, pp. 192-193, illus.
Brennan, Michael. "Painter's Journal", artnet. com -Magazine, Friday, October 29, 1999, illus.
1997
  Ostrow, Saul. "Barry Le Va", Bomb Magazine, Summer 1997, pp. 54-59, illus. and photographs. Saltz, Jerry. "Barry Le Va", Time Out New York, February 27-March 6, issue no. 75, p. 41.
Kimmelman, Michael, "Barry Le Va", The New York Times, March.
1995
  "Jack Bankowsky talks with Klaus Kertess." Artforum, January, Vol. XXXIII. No. 5, pp. 67-71, 104,109.
Kimmelman, Michael. "A Quirky Whitney Biennial." The New York Times, March 24, 1995, pp. C1 + C23.
Schjeldahl, Peter. "One Man Show: Klaus Kertess's Biennial Moyen Sensuel." The Village Voice, April 4 1995, pp. 72-73.
1994
  Zevi, Adachiara. "Barry Le VA: il principio distibutivo del caso/ distributive principle of the case." L'Architettura Cronache e Storia, January, 459, No. 1, pp. 55-58.
1995
  Francblin, Catherine. "Barry Le VA: Art Work in Expansion." Artpress, Sept., No. 183, pp. E9- E11.
1992
  Kirili, Alain. "Who's Afraid of Abstract Modeling?" Tema Celeste, April-May, pp. 54-57.
1990
  Tallmer, Jerry. "Look Back at New Ideas." New York Post, March 2, p. 30.
Smith, Roberta. "Sculpture, But Not Strictly So." The New York Times, March 3, p. 11.
Smith, Roberta. "Sculpture at the Whitney: The Radical Years." The New York Times, pp. C1 +C28.
Larson, Kay. "Starting Over." New York Magazine, March 19, pp. 81-82.
1989
  Morgan, Robert, C. "Barry Le Va at Sonnabend." Flash Art, Jan/ Feb. p. 125.
Smith, Roberta. "Barry Le Va." The New York Times, Feb. 17.
Knight, Christopher. "Le Va's Puzzles Create Chaos Out of Order." Los Angeles Herald Examiner, Suri. Feb. 5.
Welish, Marjorie. "Barry Le Va." Art News, March, p. 172.
Pagel, David. "Barry Le Va." Arts Magazine, May, pp. 95.
1988
  Homisak, Bill. "Le Va's Minimalist Moments in Time." Philadelphia Tribune, November 13, 1988.
1986
  Lurie, David. "American Eccentric Abstraction 1965-1972." Arts Magazine, March.
Cohen, Ronny. "A New Look At Big Drawing." Drawing, September/ October/ vol. VIII, no. 3.
Ellis, Stephen. "At Order's Edge." Art in America, July, pp. 98-107.
1984
  Lichtenstein, Therese. "Works on Paper." Arts, January.
Harrison, Helen, A. "Trying to Bridge the Gap Between Seeing and Knowing/" The New York Times, Sunday, Feb. 5.
1983
  "Barry Le Va at Sonnabend." Artforum, January, pp. 58-65.
Kertess, Klaus. "Barry Le Va's Sculpture: Ellipsis and Ellipse", Artforum, January, pp. 58-65.
Zimmer, William. "Before and After Look From." The New York Times, October 30.
1981
  Raynor, Vivien. "Art: 'Twisted Chains' from Barry Le Va." The New York Times, March 13.
Chernow, Burt. "New Dimension in Drawing." (Aldrich--Museum Ridgefield, CT), Art New England, May.
1976
  Bourdon, David. "Is This a Geometry Class?" Village Voice, (New York), January 26, 1976.
Foote, Nancy. "Barry Le Va, Sonnabend Gallery": Artforum, vol. 14, no. 8, 1976, pp. 66-67.
Russell, John. "200 Years of Sculpture Honors Nation." The New York Times, March 17, 1976.
Tatransky, Valentin. "Vito Acconci/ Mel Bochner/ Barry Le Va." Arts, vol. 52, no. 5 January p. 27.
Zucker, Barbara. "Barry Le Va Sonnabend." Art News, vol. 75, no. 3, March, p. 131.
1975
  Goodman, Scott. "Barry Le Va at Weinberg Gallery." Art in America, vol. 63, no. 5, September, p. 76.
Perrone, Jeff. "Barry Le Va at Weinberg Gallery." Artforum, vol. 13, no. 9, May, pp. 83-4.
1974
  Gilbert-Rolfe, Jeremy. "Barry Le Va, Bykert Gallery Downtown." Artforum, vol. 13, no. 1 September, pp. 79-80.
1973
  Baker, K. "Barry Le Va At Bykert Gallery." Art in America, vol. 61, no. 5, September, pp. 117- 122.
Boice, Bruce. "Barry Le Va, Bykert Gallery Downtown." Artforum, vol. II, no. 10, June, p. 82.
Frank, Peter. "Reviews and Previews." Art News, vol. 72, no. 5, May, p. 83.
Kerber, Bernhard. "Rudolf Zwirner und Rolf Ricke: Ausstellung." Art International, vol. 17, no. 6, Summer, pp. 81-82.
Mayer, Rosemary. "Group Show, Bykert." Arts, vol. 47, no. 5, March, p. 72.
1971
  Young, Joseph, E. "Garden Gallery, Los Angeles." Art International.
Bear, Liza and Sharpe, Willoughby. "Discussions with Barry Le Va." Avalanche no. 3, Fall 1971, pp. 62-75.
Nemser, Cindy. "Subject-Object Body Art." Arts, vol. 46, September, pp. 41-42.
1970
  Sharpe, Willoughby. "New Directions in Southern California Sculpture." Arts, vol. 44, no. 8, Summer 1970, pp. 35-8.
1969
  Rosing, Larry. "Barry Le Va and The Nondescript Distribution." Art News, vol. 68, September, pp. 52-53.
Rose, Barbara. "The Politics of Art -Part III." Artforum, vol. VII, no. 9, May, pp. 46-51.
Livingston, Jane and Selz, Peter. "Two Generations in L. A." Art in America, vol. 57, no. 1, Jan./ Feb., pp. 92-97.
Morris, Robert. "Notes on Sculpture-Beyond Objects." Artforum, vol. VII, no. 8, April, pp. 50-54.
1968
  Danieli, Fidel. "Some New L. A. Artists." Artforum, vol. no. 7, March, p. 47.
Livingston, Jane. "Barry Le Va: Distributional Sculpture." Artforum, vol. VII, no. 3, November, pp. 50-54.
   
 

Selected Public Collections

   
  Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, New York
  Bowdoin College Museum of Art, Brunswick, Maine
  The Chase Manhattan Bank, New York
  The Museum of Modern Art, New York
  Museu Serralves: Museum of Contemporary Art, Porto, Portugal
  Newport Harbor Art Museum, Newport Beach, California
  The Ohio State University, Wexner Center for the Visual Arts, Columbus, Ohio
  The Parrish Art Museum, Southampton, New York
  Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
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