Barry Le Va was an American Post-Minimalist sculptor. Like his peers Richard Serra and Keith Sonnier, Le Va’s use of rough materiality and performance was a response to the sleek and simple formality of Minimalism. He incorporated broken glass, ripped up felt, or meat cleavers thrown into a wall, as seen in his work Cleaved Corner (1969/2019) held at the Dia Beacon. “Take time and figure it out, to follow the steps I took, to look long and hard at something nobody else would notice,” he once said of how he envisaged viewers engaging with his work. Born on December 28, 1941 in Long Beach, CA, Le Va initially began his studies in architecture and mathematics before deciding to pursue art, first at California...