Tony DeLap
Born Oakland, CA, 1927.
Education
Menlo Jr. College, Claremont Graduate School.
Lives & works in Corona del Mar, CA
Teaching
UC Davis,1964-65. Professor, Studio Art
UC Irvine, 1965-1991. Member of founding faculty.
Selected Solo Exhibitions
2002
Peter Blake Gallery, Laguna Beach, CA
2001
San JoseMuseum of Art, Tony DeLap(retrspective), San Jose, CA
Mark Moore Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
2000
Orange County Museum of Art, Tony DeLap (retrospective) Newport Beach, CA.
Peter Blake Gallery, Laguna Beach, CA
1994-98
Mark Moore Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
1986,89,90,91,92
Works Gallery, LA & Long Beach ,CA
1986,89,92,96
Modernism, San Francisco
1987,89,91 Jan
Turner Gallery, LA,CA
1979,81,83,85
Janus Gallery, LA,CA
1994
California State University, Fullerton, CA
1993
Gudrun Spielvogel Gallery, Munich, Germany
1992
Beatrix Wilhelm Gallery, Stuttgart, Germany
Allene LaPides Gallery, Santa Fe, NM
1991
Klein Gallery, Chicago, IL
1965,66,67,70,73,75,77,79,82,84
Robert Elkon Gallery, New York, NY
1981
Mathews Center Gallery, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ
1980
Pierce College, Woodland Hills, CA>1979 California State University, Chico, CA
1977
Newport Harbor Art Museum, Newport Beach, CA
Casat Gallery, La Jolla, CA
1972,74, 76
Nicholas Wilder Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
1976
California State College, Bakersfield, CA
Palomar College, San Marcos, CA
Jack Glenn Gallery, Newport Beach, CA
1974,1976
John Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1974
California State University, Long Beach, CA
1975
Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Santa Barbara, CA
Baxter Art Gallery, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena , CA
1970
Albright-Knox Museum,Award Exhibition for Carborundum Co., Buffalo, NY
1968
University of California at Irvine, Irvine, CA
1965,66,68
Felix Landau Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
1963, 68
Dilexi Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1964
San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco,CA (Nealie Sullivan Award Exhibition)
1960
Oakland Art Museum, Oakland, CA
1954
Richmond Art Center, Richmond, CA
Selected Group Exhibitions
1998
"L.A. Cool," Rocket Gallery, London, England
1997
"A Hotbed of Advanced Art, Four Decades of Visual Arts at UC Irvine," Art Gallery, UCI, CA.
"Sensuality in Abstraction",Municipal Art Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
1995
"Made in L.A. The Prints of Cirrus Editions", Los Angeles County Museum of Art, CA
"Pasted Papers. Collage & the 2oth Century," Louis Stern Fine Arts, LA,CA
1992
Tony DeLap, Bruce Conner, "Conversations About Magic",Jan TurnerGallery, LA, CA
1991
"Finish Fetish: LA’s Cool School", Fisher Gallery, USC, LA, CA
1988
"Art for the Public. New Collaboration." Dayton Art Institute, Dayton, OH
1982
"One Hundred Years of California Sculpture." Oakland Art Museum, Oakland, CA
1980
"Drawing: At The Henry", Henry Art Gallery, U. Washington, Seattle, WA
1979
"Painting Hybrids", Rosenberg Gallery, New York
1977
"Private Images: Photographs by Painters", LA County Museum of Art, LA,CA
"35th Biennial of Contemporary American Painting", Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C
1976
"Artists from Los Angeles, "Museum of Modern Art, New York,NY
1970
"Trio, Three-Man Show" (DeLap, Gallo, Hesse) Owens -Corning Fiberglass Center, NY,NY
1967
"Sculpture of the ’60′s," Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA
"The Responsive Eye," The Museum of Modern Art, New York
"Carnegie International, " Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh,PA
Public Collections
Museum of Modern Art, NY, NY.
Whitney Museum of American Art, NY, NY.
The Tate Gallery, London, England.
Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, NY.
Hirschhorn Museum & Sculpture Garden, Wash. DC
Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego, CA
Oakland Museum of Art, Oakland, CA
Fujinomiya City,Japan
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, SF,CA
Long Beach Museum of Art, Long Beach, CA
Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN
Santa Barbara Museum of Art,Santa Barbara, CA
Montgomery Gallery, Pomona College, Claremont, CA
Laguna Art Museum, Laguna Beach, CA
Storm King Art Center,Mountainville, NY
Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach, CA
Honors & Awards
National Endowment for the Arts, l983, $25,000 Fellowship Grant, Highest Award for Painting
Centinela Gateway Competition for Santa Monica Arts Commission Sculpture Project, Awarded Commission
1st Prize, Los Angeles Department of Airports, Statewide Sculpture Competition,Los Angeles, CA
University of California Regents’ Creative Arts Fellowship, (study of Haida Indian totems) 1974
A.F.A. Ford Foundation Grant, Museum-in-Residence Program, Haverford, PA
Nealie Sullivan Award,San Francisco Art Institute, SanFrancisco,CA 1964
Selected Biography
Catalog, "Tony DeLap". Orange County Museum of Art, 2000
Iannaccone,Carmine, "Tony DeLap at Orange County Museum of Art" Art Issues, January/February 2001
Reed, Michal, "Tony DeLap, Mark Moore Gallery" Art+Text /56, 1997 p. 85. Illus.
Pagel David, "Tony DeLap at Mark Moore, 6 Sept -12 Oct." Art Issues, January/February 1997. p. 39. Illus.
Catalog, "Made in LA. The Prints of Cirrus Editions" LA County Museum of Art, LA, CA October 1995,Illus.
Catalog, "Tony DeLap The House of the Magician: An Installation of Reconstructed Works from 1967-1979 Essays by Mike Magee, Peter Clother and David Pagel. California State University at Fullerton, CA Feb. l994. Illus.
Clearwater, Bonnie, "West Coast Duchamp," Grassfield Press, Miami Beach, 1991, App. B.p.115, "Duchamp Festival, UCIrvine 1971, Illus:"Tony
DeLap’s "A Spatial Occurrence,Levitation of a Human Being" 1971, text p.115-117
Catalog, "Finish Fetish: LA’s Cool School," The University of Southern California, 1991, Illus.
Catalog, Peter Frank in "Tony DeLap/Paintings, Drawings, Prints."Modernism.SF,CA. February 1989, Illus.
Catalog. "Tony DeLap and The Floating Lady. The Artist/Magician as Magician/Artist." VARI studios, Arizona State Universty, Tempe, AZ, 1988. Illus.
Catalog, "Art for the Public. New Collaborations.". Dayton Art Institute, Dayton, Ohio. March, 1988. Illus.
Knight, Christopher. "L.A.’s Art Direction. Five Painters Help Shape the City’s New Cultural Image." GQ Magazine, Aug. l983, p.136, Illus.
Frank, Peter, "In One Medium, Out the Other,"Village Voice, New York, April 9, 1979
Knight,Christopher,"A Show that Pushes Art to the Wall."LA Herald-Examiner,Sec. B,p.1,Feb.118,1981
Perlmutter, Elizabeth,"A Hotbed of Advanced Art,"Art News,May 1979, P.84, Illlus.
Roth,Moira,"Toward a History of Cal. Performance:Part 2,"Arts Magazine,June 1978,P.114,Illus.>Catalog,The 35th Biennial Exhibition of Contemporary Painting & Sculpture, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington DC. Feb. 1977, Illus.
High Performance. "Sept.17, 1977. Florine, Child of the Air –Tony DeLap", Feb. 1978, Vol. 1, No.1, p.30, Illus.
Catalog, "Watercolors and Related Media by Contemporary Californians,"Cal.Inst. Technolory, Oct.1977, Illus.
Catalog, "DeLap.The Edge as Form and Metaphor," Gene Cooper, Newport Harbor Art Museum, Newport Beach, CA. Sept. 1977. Illus.
Masheck, Joseph. "Tony DeLap’s Shapely Paintings," Arts Magaz ine, April 1976, Illus.
Catalog, "Tony DeLap", California State University, Long Beach, CA. 1974. Illu. Essay,Gene Cooper.
Catalog, "Photographs by S.Cal. Painters& Sculptors,"Coll.of Creative Studies Gallery, UCSB,June,1997,Illus.
Rose,Barbara, "Current Events" NY Magazine, p.71, Feb.1973
Schjeldahl,Peter, The New York Times, Jan .15, 1970, p.27D
Catalog,"Tony DeLap, The Last Five Years: 1963-1968, Alan Soloman, curator, UCIrvine, CA 1969 Illus.
Catalog, "Pittsburgh International," Carnegie Institute, Oct. 1967. p.252
Catalog," American Sculpture of the Sixties.LA County Museum of Art, Apr. 1967. Illus.
Coplans, John. Circle of Styles," Art in America. June, 1964. Illus.
Coplans, John, "DeLap, Space and Illusion." Artforum, Feb. 1964. Illus.