Barry Le Va: Fictional Excerpts, Notes, Interviews, Scrapbooks

Barry Le Va is back. After more than ten years without a major exhibition in the United States, a mini-blockbuster of a retrospective at the University of Pennsylvania’s Institute for Contemporary Art in early 2005 rescattered Le Va’s felt, reimbedded his cleavers in a wall and rebroke his sheets of plate glass–to extraordinary critical acclaim. Now, to complement that exhibition and for insight into a mind that has remained consistently true to a renegade vision for some 35 years, we have a …