Artworks by Barry Le Va at David Nolan Gallery on artnet

Barry Le Va

(American, 1941–2021)

Barry Le Va

Cleaved Wall, 1969–1970

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Barry Le Va

Installation Study - Expanding Foundations: Eliminating Foundations, 1979

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Barry Le Va

Study for Double Tiered Sculpture, 2001

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Barry Le Va

Bunker Coagulation, 1996

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Barry Le Va

Installation Study - Corner Sections (of One 4-Sided Boundary) Separately Projected (and Partially Blocked and Omitted) From Four Positions of Viewing #8

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Barry Le Va

Installation Study (4 Length Section), 1973

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Barry Le Va

Diagrammatic Silhouettes: Sculptured Activities, 1986

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Barry Le Va

Diagram for Two Separate Installations Combined into One Installation: Combined in Two Perspectives #9, 1981

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Barry Le Va

Sculptured Activities, 1986

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Barry Le Va

Untitled (Blown Chalk), 1969–1990

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Biography

Timeline

1941: Born in Long Beach, California
1960 - 1963: Studied California State University, Long Beach
1963: Los Angeles College of Art & Design
1964 - 1967: Otis Art Institute of Los Angeles County, Received BFA-MFA
1968 - 1970: Instructor, Minneapolis College of Art & Design
1968: Received Young Talent Grant, Los Angeles County Museum, Los Angeles
1973 - 1974: Taught Advanced Sculpture, Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey
1974: Received Guggenheim Fellowship for Sculpture
1976: Received National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship
Taught Graduate Sculpture at Yale University
: Resides in New York City

Exhibitions

2018: Barry Le Va Selected Exhibitions in 2018:
Orientation, Jack Shainman Gallery in conjunction with The Racial Imaginary Institute (TRII), New York, NY
Group Show 2018, Marc Selwyn Fine Art
2017: Barry Le Va Selected Exhibitions in 2017:
Barry Le Va: Cleaved Wall, David Nolan Gallery, New York, NY (solo exhibition)
Barry Le Va: Munich – Africa 1992-1995, Jahn and Jahn, Munich, Germany (solo exhibition)
Nagy / Libby / Le Va, Magenta Plains, New York, NY
Plan View, Jahn and Jahn, Munich, Germany
Why Draw? 500 Years of Drawing at Bowdoin College, Bowdoin College Museum of Art, Brusnwick, ME
2016: Barry Le Va Selected Exhibitions in 2016:
Barry Le Va: Network, David Nolan Gallery, New York, NY (solo exhibition)
drawing ROOM: Curated by Markus Dochantschi, David Nolan Gallery, New York, NY
Forty, MoMA PS1, New York, NY
Drawing Dialogues: The Sol Le Witt Collection, The Drawing Center, New York, NY
2015: Barry Le Va Selected Exhibitions in 2015:
Barry Le Va, Hall Art Foundation, Schloss Derneburg, Germany (solo exhibition)
Barry Le Va, Akira Ikeda Gallery, Berlin, Germany (solo exhibition)
UTOPIE documenta: Unrealized Projects from the History of the World Art Exhibition, Stadtmuseum, Oldenburg, Germany
Kassel Geschichtsturm, Kassel, Germany
Piece Work (organized by Robert Storr), Yale University School of Art, New Haven, CT
Greater New York, MoMA PS1, New York, NY
Bold Abstractions: Selections from the DMA Collection 1966–1976, Dallas Museum of Art, TX
2009: "Hands, Handles, Blades: Cleaver Configurations 1969-2009”, Mary Boone Gallery, NYC, NY. (solo)
: Sculptures and Drawings 1966 - 2009 (Part I), Nolan Judin Berlin, Germany (solo)
2006: Mary Boone Gallery, NYC, NY. (solo)
2005: “Barry Le Va Drawings 1967 to 2005”, Mary Boone Gallery, NYC, NY. (solo)
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: Black/White, Danese, New York
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
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
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
Afterimage: Drawing Through Process, Contemporary Arts Musum, Houston
Retrospective, Sonnabend, New York
Topologies, White Box, New York
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
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: 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: Pages from a Sketchbook-Japanese Lacquerware, Nolan/ Eckman Gallery, New York
Sonnabend Gallery, New York (solo)
1994: Zeichnungen 1965-1993, Staatlichen Graphischen Sammlung München
Staadtischen Museum Leverkusen, Schloss Morsbroich
1993: Collage and Drawing 1988-1993, Nolan/ Eckman Gallery, New York
Galerie Georges-Philippe Valloise, Paris
1992: Galerie Fred Jahn, Munich, Germany
American Art: 1930-1970, Lingotto, Torino, Italy
The New Museum Auction: 15th Anniversary Benefit Auction, New York
1991: Sonnabend Gallery, New York
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 Texas Variations, David Nolan Gallery, New York
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
1989: 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
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
1986: Daniel Weinberg Gallery, Los Angeles
Sonnabend Gallery, New York
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: Texas Gallery, Houston, Texas
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: Sonnabend Gallery, New York
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
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
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
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
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
1977: Wright State University, Dayton, Ohio
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
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
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: Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, Minnesota
Minneapolis Institute of Art, Minneapolis, Minnesota
1968: 2 Painters, 1 Sculptor, California State College, Los Angeles, California
1967: Lytton Center of Visual Arts, Los Angeles, California

Public Collections

: Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY
: The Morgan Library & Museum, New York, NY
: The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
: Museum Moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig Wien, Vienna, Austria
: Museum Ludwig, Cologne, Germany
: Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA
: Museu Serralves: Museum of Contemporary Art, Porto, Portugal
: Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Minneapolis, MN
: Museo d’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea di Trento e Rovereto (MART), Rovereto, Italy
: Newport Harbor Art Museum, Newport Beach, CA
: The Ohio State University, Wexner Center for the Visual Arts, Columbus, OH
: The Parrish Art Museum, Southampton, New York, NY
: Sammlung Deutsche Bank, Frankfurt, Germany
: Städtische Sammlung Erlangen, Germany
: Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN
: The National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
: Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
: Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA
: Kunstmuseum Liechtenstein, Vaduz, Germany
: Art Institute of Chicago, IL
: Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, MD
: Bowdoin College Museum of Art, Brunswick, ME
: Boston Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA
: Centre Pompidou, Paris, France
: The Chase Manhattan Bank, New York, NY
: Kunstmuseum St. Gallen, St. Gallen, Switzerland
: Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, TX
: Essl Museum, Vienna, Austria
: Fotomuseum Winterthur, Switzerland
: Graphische Sammlung Munich, Germany
: Kupferstichkabinett Berlin, Germany
: Kupferstichkabinett Dresden, Germany
: Kunstpalast Erlangen, Germany
: Denver Art Museum, Denver, CO
: Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, CT

Literature

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.

Barry Le Va

(American, 1941–2021)

Barry Le Va

Barry Le Va

Barry Le Va

Barry Le Va

Barry Le Va

Barry Le Va

Barry Le Va

Barry Le Va

Barry Le Va

Barry Le Va

Biography

Timeline

Exhibitions

Public Collections

Literature

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