Information provided by the Artist: Deladier Almeida has lived in California since the mid-1980s, earning his degree in art studio from UC Davis in 1990. Trained by renowned artists Wayne Thiebaud and Roland Petersen at UC Davis in the 1980s, 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. Almeida 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, the 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 in California, Colorado, New Mexico, Arizona, and Bergen, in the Netherlands.