| Barry Le Va | |
|---|---|
| Born | Birth date 1941 Long Beach, California |
| Nationality | American |
| Field | Painter, Sculpture |
Barry Le Va (born 1941) is an American artist.
The sculpture's first formulation was included in Le Va's 2005 retrospective at Philadelphia's Institute of Contemporary Art, but there was nothing shopworn about this work. Indeed, there was something genuinely exciting about its accumulation of sculptural elements, which at once evoked architectural models, minimalist furniture, outsize refrigerator magnets, and some sort of alien language. They spread across the floor and scaled the walls way above head height, suggesting that the viewer might follow their lead.[1]