B I O G R A P H Y (b. 1961) Deladier Almeida has lived in California since the mid-1980s, earning his Art Studio degree from the University of California at Davis, in 1990. Trained by renowned artists Wayne Thiebaud and Roland Petersen at UC Davis in the 1980’s, Deladier’s work marries the restrained quality of Thiebaud’s sleek style with Petersen’s gestural brushwork, and is inspired by other Bay Area artists including David Park, Elmer Bischoff, and Richard Diebenkorn. Deladier creates views of rural landscapes using techniques reminiscent of his teachers Thiebaud and Petersen. While systematically planning and building his compositions, he cedes control during the painting process, allowing the picture to reveal itself as he works rapidly and improvisationally to portray the color relationships and the geometric arrangements of the landscape. Full of vitality and texture, his work is known for its vibrant colors and gestural brushstrokes. Navigating between abstraction and figuration, with a rich palette and luscious brushwork, Deladier infuses vitality into each of his subjects, which range from portraits to scenes of contemporary life to brilliantly observed landscapes. His images of California and Tuscany, depicted from a bird's-eye view achieved by flying over those regions in helicopters, small planes and drones, are alive with movement and rhythm.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