Bio
Lorraine was born and raised in New Bedford, MA, moved to Oakland, CA after high school, married and lived in Alameda, CA for 30 years, then moved to Pt. Reyes, CA in the mid-1980s, and continues to live there today.
Education
1973 MFA, San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, CA
1971 BFA, San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, CA
1965-66 University of California Extension, San Francisco, CA
1965 California College of Arts and Crafts, Oakland, CA
Exhibits
2019 Solo Exhibit at “Mantra” in Novato, CA
2019 “Mind scapes” West Marin Senior Service Gallery, Point Reyes Station, CA
2016 “Retrospective of Almeida’s Work” Art by the Bay Gallery, Marshall, CA
2011 “Thirteen Cosmic Images” CG Jung Institute, San Francisco, CA
2007 “Looking Back to Move Ahead” Toby’s Gallery, Point Reyes Station, CA
2005 “Visual Meditations” Annex Gallery at Gallery Route One, Point Reyes Station, CA
2004 “Microcosms - Macrocosms" Gallery Route One, Point Reyes Station, CA
2003 “Dusk to Dawn” Annex Gallery at Gallery Route One, Point Reyes Station, CA
1999 “Lily and the Life Force” MAC Open Studio, Point Reyes Station, CA
1995 “Birth, Life, Death” LAP Gallery, Bolinas Museum
1993 “Unfolding” Toby’s Gallery, Point Reyes Station, CA
1990 “From Eros to Agape” Gallery Route One, Point Reyes Station, CA
1989 “From Dust to Dust” Gallery Route One, Point Reyes Station, CA
1988 “We Are Flowers” Stuart Welch Gallery, Marshall, CA
1987 “Heart Opening” John F Kennedy University Gallery, Orinda, CA
1980 "States of Being” Newman Gallery, Berkeley, CA
1978 “Mandalas" Richmond Art Center, Richmond, CA
1977 “A Sense of Scale” Oakland Museum, Oakland CA
1976 South of Market Open Studio, San Francisco, CA
Publications
2004 Images of Change
2010 Myth of the Earth
2015 Then, Now & Beyond: Reflections of and Examined Life in Transition to Old Age