Information provided by the Artist: Deladier Almeida has lived in California since the mid-1980's. He earned his degree in Art Studio from UC Davis in 1990, where he studied painting under Wayne Thiebaud and Roland Petersen, among others. Almeida’s work marries the restrained quality of Thiebaud’s sleek style with Petersen’s more gestural brushwork, and is inspired by other Bay Area artists including David Park, Elmer Bischoff, and Richard Diebenkorn. He has exhibited his work at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the Crocker Art Museum, the Hilbert Museum of California Art, the Pasadena Museum of California Art, LA Natural History Museum, the Caldwell Snyder gallery in San Francisco, the Campton gallery in New York City, the Bennington Center for the Arts in Vermont, the Obsession of Art Gallery in Bergen NL and Amsterdam, and the Albemarle Gallery in London. His work is currently represented by galleries throughout the US and the Netherlands.