TERRY DELAPP b. 1934, American Born in Pasadena in 1934, Terry DeLapp studied at the Chouinards Art Academy in Hollywood and at the University of California. DeLapp currently lives and works in Cambria, California. He has been exhibiting his paintings since the early 1980’s, participating in group shows in California, New Mexico and elsewhere. DeLapp has had numerous solo exhibitions as well, most recently at the Bakersfield Museum of Art (1998). His paintings can be found at the San Diego Museum of Art, and in the many private collections, including those of Steve Martin, Martin Mull, Joan Rivers, Juilan Ganz, and Robert Zemeckis. ARTIST STATEMENT "Originally, my art was meant as a political motivator. I was interested in expressing my views, especially those on the environment and utilized my art as a means of doing so. I was unconcerned with the 'art' in my art, but rather concentrated on relaying an 'other meaning' that would register with the viewer as a statement of my concerns." "By the early 1990's, though, and politics aside, I re-thought my commitment to what had become my main concern: the environment, most specifically the area where I lived, the Central Coast of California. I realized how enchanted I was with the beauty of this place, the exquisite patterns and colors formed by nature and man as they vied for space in the agricultural lands between the Sierra Nevada Mountains and the Pacific Ocean. "I did away with the subliminal messages and devices of my earlier work and concentrated on work that could, to some degree, match the loveliness of my inspiration. It was, and is, telling the old story in the old way, relying on painterly achievement to best convey my concern for the land and what is on it. " "Although I am primarily a landscape painter, my work is not Plein-Air, my finished paintings are easel work, stylistically Neo-Tonalist. I work within a confine of classic composition and limited palette using the medium (acrylic), in the manner of oil paint; glazing, scumbling, building textures all in a traditional way, hopefully expanding those disciplines to further artistic growth. My work is easily accessible, perhaps even simplistic. It gives beauty a chance." EXHIBITIONS Bakersfield Museum of Art Wendy Hoff Fine Art, New York Perspective Fine Arts, New York Denver Art Museum, Colorado Zaplin/Lampert Gallery, Santa Fe Spaniermann Gallery, New York George Stern Fine Arts, Los Angeles Sullivan-Goss, Santa Barbara COLLECTIONS Warren and Ian Adelson Michael and Barbara Borghi L. Rogers Brandon Louise Fletcher Debra Force Jullan and JoAnn Ganz San Diego Museum of Art Brian Grazer Maurice and Marge Katz Steve Martin David and Norma Mcintyre Nancy Meyers Martin Mull Don Rymal Martin Short Andy Williams Robart Zmeckis