Calida Rawles: Away with the Tides book In these images

In these images

and shows how she explored the relationship between art and industry

moving from photography to film to multimedia installation

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In addition to studio portraiture of surfers

Calida Rawles: Away with the Tides book In these imagesRawles 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