Untitled from Voltage
2007 · One from a portfolio of nine etchings and Xerox with chine collé
plate: 10 7/8 x 8 3/8" (27.6 x 21.2 cm); sheet: 16 x 16" (40.6 x 40.6 cm)
Museum of Modern Art
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Barry Le Va
American, 1941
Long Beach, CA, USA
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Contemporary Sculpture: Selections from the Collection of The Museum of Modern Art
Museum of Modern Art, New York
1979
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A Selection of Drawings and Watercolors from the Museum Collection
Museum of Modern Art, New York
1971
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Barry Le Va was an American artist known for large-scale installations and floor-based works that emerged from process and chance. Working primarily with scattered materials, powders, and geometric arrangements, his practice challenged the conventions of painting and sculpture by treating the gallery floor as an active field of composition. Active from the 1960s onward, Le Va's dispersed and accumulative works engaged with entropy, gravity, and the physical traces of artistic decision-making itself.
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