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(American 1927 – )

Tony DeLap has dedicated close to half a century to exploring the seam between sculpture and painting, merging the boarders of architecture, design and art, reducing to the most basic expression of form, shape, scale and color, while remaining devoted to the search for beauty in the creation of a simple object. Along with artists Dan Flavin, Donald Judd, Carl Andre, and Sol LeWitt, Tony DeLap was included in many of the ground breaking exhibitions of the sixties that ushered in the awareness of the minimalism movement. While teaching at the University of California, Irvine, Tony DeLap has been an inspiration and mentor to some of California’s most revered artists. Bruce Nauman, James Turrell and John McCracken all blossomed under his tutelage. DeLap continues to create work with a recent monumental public work installed February 2009 in the City of Santa Ana. Tony Delap is included in numerous permanent collections including the Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY, Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, La Jolla, CA; Orange Country Museum of Art, Newport Beach, CA; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA; The Tate Gallery, London, UK; Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY; Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY and Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA.