Calida Rawles: Away with the Tides book artists and artisans have created

artists and artisans have created small objects for many purposes: tiny gold amulets of ancient Egyptian gods to protect the wearer

He worked as a brothel pianist and railcar porter

” involving the transfer of mental images onto undeveloped Polaroid film

he found his way to Rockaway Beach in Queens

the beating wings take on a majestic quality

Calida Rawles: Away with the Tides book artists and artisans have createdRawles transcendent, hyperrealistic paintings of Black bodies in water reckon with the legacy of racial injustice Merging hyperrealism, poetic abstraction and the cultural and historical symbolisms of water, Los Angelesbased artist Calida Rawles (born 1976) creates unique portraits of Black bodies submerged in and interacting with bright, mysterious bodies of water. The water, itself a sort of character within the paintings, functions as an element