Calida Rawles: Away with the Tides dosunmu while a prologue by poet

while a prologue by poet and artist Precious Okoyomon and a reflection by Lambda Literary Award finalist Cyrus Dunham open up new forms of language for questions around gender and abstraction

folded dust jacket and hot foil logo prints

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The fibers are manually extracted from the agave leaf

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Calida Rawles: Away with the Tides dosunmu while a prologue by poetRawles 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