Barry Le Va's 1967 floor piece Switch realized for first time at ADAA Art Show

Barry Le Va's 1967 floor piece Switch is being realized for the first time in 2016 at The ADAA Art Show at the Park Avenue Armory. The work features random scatterings of felt fragments, ball bearings, and fabric bales alongside sleek mirrored metal linear elements. David Nolan Gallery is presenting the piece, which was originally planned in Le Va's studio nearly five decades earlier. At the same venue, Cheim and Read gallery displays three stack paintings by Ron Gorchov that test painting's boundary with sculpture. Art critic Jane Livingstone described Le Va's approach as "distributional sculpture" in ARTForum magazine. Le Va is recognized as a pioneer of post-minimalism and process art before those terms became established. The Art Show continues through Sunday at 5pm. The installation creates a striking juxtaposition with neighboring gallery presentations in the Armory's aisles.