Calida Rawles: Away with the Tides book 2” high x 8” diam

2” high x 8” diam

In these images

In addition to studio portraiture of surfers

He worked as a brothel pianist and railcar porter

moving from photography to film to multimedia installation

Calida Rawles: Away with the Tides book 2” high x 8” diamRawles 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