Barry Le Va: Distributional Sculpture

In the mid 20th century, Barry Le Va challenged some of the fundamentals of the art work. In his distributional sculpture, Le Va laid out his work across a large surface area, giving the audience a side-view of the pieces instead of the traditional head-on viewing experience. In looking at our Field Recording projects, we discussed the ways in which we could vary up our work, in that we could force the viewer to be placed in a number of different perspectives in observing the scene. 70 years ago, Le Va provided the groundwork (pun intended) for our style.

Here is the link to the article: https://www.artforum.com/print/196809/barry-le-va-distributional-sculpture-36583.

Look up some more pictures to see his great work!