Biography
| 1941 | Born in Long Beach, California Resides in New York City |
EDUCATION
| 1960-63 | California State University Long Beach, Studied Mathematics, Architecture |
| 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 |
| 1974 | Received Guggenheim Fellowship for Sculpture |
| 1976 | Received National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship |
| 1976 | Taught Graduate Sculpture at Yale University |
ONE MAN EXHIBITIONS
| 2010 |
“Barry Le Va: Recent Sculpture and Drawings,” Hackett Projects, Santa Fe, NM
“Barry Le Va: Recent Sculpture and Drawings,” Marc Selwyn Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
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| 2005 | “Accumulated Vision, Barry Le Va,” Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia, PA |
| 2003 | Galerie Fred Jahn, Munich, Germany “A Survey of Drawings 1966-2003 and Two New Sculptures,” Galerie Juerg Judin, Vienna, Austria “Barry Le Va: Scrapbooks: Livres a dessins 1998-2003,” Musée d’art et d’histoire, Cabinet des estampes, Geneva, Switzerland |
| 2002 | “Barry Le Va: Black on Blue,” Danese, New York |
| 2001 | Galerie Fred Jahn, Munich, Germany “Recent Drawings/Early Works,” Nolan/Eckman Gallery, NY “Barry Le Va: A Decade of Drawings,” Texas Gallery, Houston, TX |
| 2000 | Galerie Fred Jahn, Munich, Germany Tomasso Corvi-Mora, London, England Aman Gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel “Barry Le Va: Selected Drawings from 1982 to 1998,” Norwood Gallery, Austin, TX |
| 1999 | Danese Gallery, New York, NY Stephen Wirtz Gallery, San Francisco Richard Telles Gallery, Los Angeles |
| 1998 | “Smatterings: Works on Paper 1967-1998,” Sonnabend Gallery, New York |
| 1997 | “Diagrams of Thought: Drawing 1994-96,” Nolan/Eckman, New York Danese Gallery, New York |
| 1996 | Galerie Georges-Philippe Vallois, Paris Galerie Zell am See, Zell am See Nolan/Eckman Gallery, New York |
| 1995 | Nolan/Eckman Gallery, New York Sonnabend Gallery, New York |
| 1993 | Galerie Georges-Phillipe Valois, Paris Staatliche Graphische Sammlung, Munich |
| 1992 | Galerie Fred Jahn, Munich |
| 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, NY “Barry Le Va Sculpture”, Daniel Weinberg Gallery, Los Angeles, CA “Barry Le Va: Glas, Geschosse, Beile, 1968 1970”, Stadtishes Museum Abteiberg, Monchengladbach, West Germany “Sculpture”, Texas Gallery, Houston, TX |
| 1988 | Rijksmuseum Kroller Muller, Otterlo, The Netherlands Sonnabend Gallery, New York “Barry Le Va 1966 88”, Carnegie Mellon University Art Gallery, Pittsburg, PA; Newport Habor Art Museum, Newport Beach, CA.; High Museum of Art, Atlanta, GA.; Neuberger Museum, State University of New York, Purchase, NY; Newport Harbor Art Museum, Newport Beach, CA |
| 1987 | Galerie Fred Jahn, Munich, West Germany |
| 1986 | Daniel Weinberg Gallery, Los Angeles, CA Sonnabend Gallery, New York |
| 1985 | Texas Gallery, Houston, TX |
| 1983 | Sonnabend Gallery, New York |
| 1982 | P.S. #1, Long Island City, New York Beaver College, Philadelphia, PA Yarlow Salzman Gallery, Toronto, Canada Daniel Weinberg Gallery, San Francisco & Los Angeles, CA |
| 1981 | Sonnabend Gallery, New York The New Gallery, Cleveland, OH |
| 1980 | Nigel Greenwood Gallery, London, England Michelle Lachowsky, Bruxelles, Belgium L.A.I.C.A., Los Angeles, CA |
| 1979 | The New Museum of Art, New York (retrospective) Hartnell College Gallery, Salinas, CA Sonnabend Gallery, New York |
| 1978 | Texas Gallery, Houston, TX Sonnabend Gallery, New York |
| 1977 | Wright State University, Dayton, OH |
| 1976 | Sonnabend Gallery, New York Ricke Gallery, Cologne, Germany Sonnabend Gallery, Paris, Texas Gallery, Houston, TX Claire Copley Gallery, Los Angeles, CA Daniel Weinberg Gallery, San Francisco, CA |
| 1975 | Daniel Weinberg Gallery, San Francisco, CA Claire Copley Gallery, Los Angeles, CA Bykert Gallery, New York Espace 5, Montreal, Canada Musee d’Art Contemporain, Montreal, Canada |
| 1974 | Texas Gallery, Houston, TX Joseloff Gallery, Hartford Art School, Hartford, Conn. Bykert Gallery, New York Toselli Gallery, Milan, Italy |
| 1973 | Felix Handshin Gallery, Basel, Switzerland Ricke Gallery, Cologne, Germany Zwirner Gallery, Cologne, Germany Bykert Gallery, NY |
| 1972 | Ricke Gallery, Cologne, Germany Bykert Gallery, NY 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, Minn. Minneapolis Institute of Art, Minneapolis, Minn. |
GROUP EXHIBITIONS (Selected)
| 2011 |
“Der Raum Der Linie: Amerikanische Zeichnungen und Skupturen Sammlung Michalke,” Staatliche Graphische Sammlung Munchen, Pinakothek der Modern, Munich, Germany
“ERRE:Variations Labyrinthiques,” Le Centre Pompidou-Metz; 2011-2012
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| 2007 | “Beneath the Underdog” Gagosian Gallery, 980 Madison Avenue, NY; April 27 – June 16 |
| 2004 | “Visions of America: Contemporary Art from the Essl Collection and the Sonnabend Collection, New York”; Sammlung Essl, Klosterneuberg/Vienna; October 2004 – March “Moved,” Hunter College/CUNY, Times Square Gallery, NY Senior and Shopmaker Gallery, NY |
| 2003 | “Zeichnungen 1995-1997,” Galerie Zell am See, Austria “Some Drawings, A Few Sculptures, and a Painting,” Texas Gallery, Houston, TX |
| 2002 | “From Pop to Now: Selections from the Sonnabend Collection” The Tang Teaching Museum and Art Gallery, Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, NY; The Wexner Center for the Arts, Columbus, OH “Le Stanze Dell’Arte, Figure e Immagini del XX Secolo” Museo d’Arte Moderna Contemporanea di Trento e Rovereto “Phenomenal Bodies – Fenomenale Kropper: Drammen, Lillehammer, Horten, Tønsberg,” Drammens Museum, Norway “Einfach Kunst: Sammlung Rolf Ricke,” Neues Museum, Staatliches Museum fur kunst und Design in Nurnberg Nolan/Eckman Gallery, NY |
| 2001 | “Kinds of Drawings” Herter Art Gallery, Univeristy of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA D’Amelio Terras Gallery, New York, NY Curt Marcus Gallery, New York, NY “ART WORKS: Sammlung Marzona, Kunst um 1968,” Kunsthalle Bielefeld, Germany |
| 2000 | Barbara Gladstone Gallery, New York NY David Nolan, New York, NY “Topologies”, White Box, New York, NY “Imaging African Art”, Yale, New Haven, CT “Barry LeVa, Tip Dunham, Terry Winters”, Michael Hasenclover, Munich, Germany |
| 1999 | Danese Gallery, New York, NY “Circa 1968” Fundacao de Serralves, Porto, Portugal “Art of the Century”, Whitney, NY “Barry LeVa, Kirsten Ortwed, Lawrence Weener”, MALMO Kunsthalle, Sweden |
| 1998 | “Deep Thought II,” Basilico Fine Arts, New York, NY |
| 1997 | “Laying Low”, Kunstnernes Hus, Oslo |
| 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 | “Mapping: A Response to MOMA”, American Fine Arts, Co., Colin de Land Fine Art, New York, NY Whitney Biennial, The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY “Endurance: The Information”, Exit Art, New York, NY “Attitudes/Sculptures, 1963-1972”, CAPC Musee d’Art Contemporain, Bordeaux, France |
| 1994 | “Fine Lines”, Anthony Slayter-Ralph, Santa Barbara, CA Sonnabend Gallery, New York, NY |
| 1993 | “European and American Drawings 1961-1969”, Nolan/Eckman Gallery, NY “Barry Le Va: Drawings for works in Progress & Young-Jae Lee: Ceramics”, Nolan/Eckman Gallery, NY “Just Art”, 110 Greene Street, New York “Floor Sculpture”, Le Consortium, Dijon, France “Drawings: 30th Anniversary Exhibition”, Leo Castelli Gallery, NY |
| 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, “Mel Bochner, Carroll Dunham, Barry LeVa, 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 Ileana Sonnabend Collection”, Guild Hall, East Hampton, NY |
| 1990 | “The New Sculpture 1965 75: Between Geometry and Gesture”, The Whitney Museum of American Art, NY; The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA “Concept Decoratif: Anti Formalist Art of the 70s”, Nahan Contemporary, NY “Art Conceptuel, Formes Conceptuelles”, Galerie 1900-2000, Paris 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 “Geometric Abstraction”, Greene Gallery, Bay Harbor Islands, FLA “Entre La Geometrie et le Geste”, Galerie Georges-Philippe Vallois, Paris |
| 1989 | “Works on Paper”, Marc Richards Gallery, Los Angeles, CA “A Decade of Amecican Drawing: 1980 1989”, Daniel Weinberg Gallery, Los Angeles, CA “New Works by Gallery Artists”, Sonnabend Gallery, New York, NY |
| 1988 | “Collection Sonnabend”, Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid; CAPC Musee d’Art Contemporain, Bordeaux; Art Cologne, Cologne; Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin; Galleria Nazionale d’Arte Moderna, Rome; Museo d’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea, Trent; Musee Rath, Geneva; 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 Sonnabend Gallery, New York, NY “Three Decades: The Oliver Hoffman Collection”, The Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago “Amerikanishe Druckgraphik: Recent American Prints”, Galerie Fred Jahn, Munchen, West Germany |
| 1987 | “1967: At the Crossroads”, Institute of Contemporary Art, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA “Drawings”, Sylvia Cordish Fine Art, Baltimore, MD “Points of Contact”, Laurie Rubin Gallery, NY “Knoebel, LeVa, Nauman”, Barbara Gladstone Gallery, New York, NY “Drawings from the Eighties”, Carnegie Mellon University Art Gallery, Pittsburgh “Early Concepts of the Last Decade”, Holly Solomon Gallery, NY “Fall Invitational”, The Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Ridgefield, CT “Strong Statements in Black and White” James Goodman Gallery New York, NY |
| 1986 | “American Eccentric Abstraction”, Blum Helman Gallery, NY “Art From Two Continents”, Bruce Helander Gallery, Palm Beach “Between Geometry and the Gesture: American Sculpture 1965 75”, Palacio De Velazquez Parque Del Retiro, Madrid “Europe/America”, Museum Ludwig, Cologne |
| 1985 | Margaret Roeder Gallery, New York University |
| 1984 | “Summer Group Show”, Sonnabend Gallery, NY “Large Drawings”, Zilkha Gallery, Wesleyan University, Middletown, CT. “Minding Measure: Measuring Mind”, Islip Art Museum, East Islip, NY “Large Drawings” Le Va, Morris, Nauman, Serra. Renaissance Society |
| 1983 | “Object, Structure, Artiface”, University of South Florida Art Galleries, Tampa, Florida “Language, Drama, Source & Vision”, The New Museum of Contemporary Art, NY “Sculptor as Draftsman”, Whitney Museum of American Art, NY “Drawing Conclusions, A Survey of American Drawings 1958 to 1983”, Daniel Weinberg Gallery, Los Angeles & San Francisco, CA “Shift”, Neuberger Museum, Purchase, NY “Varietes of Sculptural Ideas”, Max Hutchinson Gallery, NY “Young Talent Awards”, Los Angeles County Museum, Los Angeles, CA |
| 1982 | “Documenta (7)”, Kassel, Germany “Prints by Contemporary Sculptors”, Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Connecticut “Abstract Drawings 1911 1981”, Whitney Museum of American Art, NY “Great Big Drawings”, Hayden Gallery, MIT, Cambridge, MA “Beyond Measurement”, DeCordova Museum, Lincoln, MA “Shift LA NY, Newport Harbor Art Museum, Newport Beach, CA “20th C. Drawings”, Daniel Weinberg Gallery, San Francisco, CA |
| 1981 | “Working Drawings”, Hunter College, NY (travelled) “Drawing Distinctions (Tendencies in American Drawings of the Seventies)”, Louisiana Museum, Denmark; travelled to Kunsthalle Basel, Switzerland and Stadtische Galerie in Lenbachhaus, Munich “Variants: Drawings by Sculptors”, Sewall Art Gallery, Rice University, Houston, Texas “Schemes: A Decade of Installation Drawings”, Elise Meyer Gallery, NY “New Dimensions in Drawing”, Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Ridgefield, CT “Summer Group Show”, Sonnabend Gallery, NY “Contemporary Drawings”, Edward Thorp Gallery, NY “Drawing Acquisition”, Whitney Museum of American Art, NY |
| 1980 | “Pittsburgh Plan for Art”, Pittsburgh, PA “Reasoned Space”, Center for Creative Photography, University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona “Drawings: The Pluralist Decade”, Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy & ICA, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania “Summer Group Show”, Sonnabend Gallery, NY Ed Thorp Gallery, NY |
| 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, NY |
| 1978 | “Summer Group Exhibition”, Sonnabend Gallery, NY “Installation”, Tampa Bay Art Center, Tampa, Florida “New York Now”, Phoenix Art Museum, Phoenix, Arizona Corboran Gallery of Art, Washington D.C. “Contemporary Drawing New York”, University at Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA “Documenta 6”, Kassel, West Germany |
| 1977 | “Arche Le Va Long”, Corcoran Museum of Art, Washington DC “The Whitney Biennial”, Whitney Museum of American Art, NY “Drawings (Barry Le Va, Sol Lewitt)”, Daniel Weinberg Gallery, San Francisco, CA “Installations (Andrea Blum, Freya Hansell, Barry Le Va)”, The Renaissance Society, University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois “3 Installations (Vito Acconci, Mel Bochner, Barry Le Va)”, Sonnabend Gallery, NY |
| 1976 | Renaissance Society, University of Chicago, Chicago,Illinois Suzanne Hilberry Gallery, Birmingham, Michigan “Group Exhibition”, Broxton Gallery, Los Angeles,CA “200 Years of American Sculpture”, Whitney Museum of American Art, NY “Group Exhibition”, Rene Block Gallery, Berlin, Germany “Line”, Visual Arts Museum, Philadelphia College of Art, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania |
| 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, West Germany |
| 1974 | “71st American Wxhibition”, Art Insitute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois “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, NY “Drawings”, Bykert Gallery, NY |
| 1972 | “Documenta (5)”, Kassel, Germany |
| 1971 | “American Drawings”, Ricke Gallery, Cologne, Germany Whitney Sculpture Annual, Whitney Museum of American Art, NY “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,CA “Nine Artists, Nine Spaces”, Minnesota State Arts Council, Minneapolis, Minnesota “Information”, Museum of Modern Art, NY |
| 1969 | “Conception Perception”, San Francisco Art Insitute, San Francisco, CA “Appearing Disappearing Object”, Newport Center of Arts, Balboa, CA “Anti Illusion:Procedure and Materials”, Whitney Museum of American Art, NY “557,087”, Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, Washington |
| 1968 | “2 Painters, 1 Sculptor”, California State College, Los Angeles, CA |
| 1967 | Lytton Center of Visual Arts, Los Angeles, CA |
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 |
| 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, NY |
| 1989 | Barry Le Va: Glas, Geschosse, Beile, 1968-1970″, Stadtisches Museum Monchengladbach, Germany |
| 1988 | Barry Le Va, Rijsmuseum Kroller Muller, Otterlo, Holland, 30 January 14 March, 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, NY Selection from the Chase Manhatten Bank Art Collection, University Gallery, Amherest University of Massashusetts New Dimensions in Drawing 1950-1980, The Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Ridgefield, CT |
| 1980 | Explorations in the 70’s, Pittsburgh Plan for Art, Essay by Robert Rosenblum. |
| 1979 | Barry Le Va: Drawings 1967 – College, Salinas, CA. Explorations in the 70’s, Pittsburgh Plan for Art, Essay by Robert Rosenblum |
| 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 D.C.: 1976. Preface by Jane Livingston. Philadelphia College of Art. Line. 1976. (Exhibition organized for the Visual Arts Museum by Janet Kardon.) |
| 1975 | Montreal, Canada. Musee D’Art Contemporain 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. |
| 1971 | Kultermann, Udo. Art Events and Happenings. London: Mathews Miller Dunbar, 1971 Lippard, Lucy. Changing. New York: E.F.Dutton and Co., 1971 |
| 1970 | Whitney Museum of American Art. Contemporary American Sculpture, New York: 1970 Hunter, Sam. American Art of the 2oth 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. |
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 Quoterly, vol.74/75, pp. 46 57 |
BIBLIOGRAPHY – REVIEWS
| 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, 24 March 1995, pp. C1 + C32. Schjeldahl, Peter. “One Man Show: Klaus Kertess’s Biennial Moyen Sensuel.” The Village Voice, 4 April 1995, pp. 72 + 73. |
| 1994 | Zevi, Adachiara. “Barry LeVa: il principio distributivo del caso/distributive principle of the case.” L’Architettura Cronache e Storia, January, 459, No. 1, pp. 55-58 |
| 1993 | 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, Apr. – May, pp. 54-57. |
| 1991 | Decter, Joshua. “Review.” Arts Magazine, Sept. p. 77. Princenthal, Nancy. “Barry Le Va at Sonnabend Gallery.” Art in America, Oct. p. 151. |
| 1990 | Tallmer, Jerry. “Look Back at New Ideas.” New York Post, Mar. 2, p. 30. Smith, Roberta. “Sculpture, But Not Strictly So.” The New York Times, Mar. 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, Mar. 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. “LeVa’s puzzles create chaos out of order.” Los Angeles Herald Examiner, Suri. Feb. 5. Welish, Marjorie. “Barry Le Va at Sonnabend.” Art News, March, p. 172. Pagel, David. “Barry Le Va.” Arts Magazine, May, pp. 95. |
| 1988 | Homisak, Bill. “LeVa’s Minimalist moments in time.” Philadelphia Tribune, 13 November 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, November. 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, 30 October. |
| 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), 26 January 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, 17 March, 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. 107. Heinemann, Susan. “Barry Le Va, Bykert Gallery Downtown.” Artforum, vol.14, no.1, September, p. 76. Perrone, Jeff. “Barry Le Va at Weinberg Gallery.” Artforum, vol.l3, 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.6l, 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 2. 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 2. |
| 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 3. 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 7. Morris, Robert. “Notes on Sculpture Beyond Objects.” Artforum, vol.VII, no.8, April, pp. 50 4. |
| 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 4. |