post-title NEWS ++ Calida Rawls: Away with the Tides – Perez Art Museum Miami | until 02.02.2025

NEWS ++ Calida Rawls: Away with the Tides – Perez Art Museum Miami | until 02.02.2025

NEWS ++ Calida Rawls: Away with the Tides – Perez Art Museum Miami | until 02.02.2025

NEWS ++ Calida Rawls: Away with the Tides – Perez Art Museum Miami | until 02.02.2025

Calida Rawles envisions water as a space for Black healing, offering a reimagined perspective on the African American community that extends beyond the narratives commonly recognized within the United States’ collective history. Until February 2, 2025, for her first solo museum exhibition, Rawles connects her distinctive artistic style to a lesser-known and often overlooked chapter in Miami’s history. Combining hyperrealism, poetic abstraction, and the cultural and historical symbolism of water, Rawles crafts distinctive portraits of Black figures submerged in or interacting with luminous and enigmatic bodies of water. In her work, water serves as more than a backdrop; it becomes a character in its own right, symbolizing both physical and spiritual healing, while also evoking the historical trauma and racial exclusion tied to its presence.

Rawles explores the unique experiences of Black residents in Overtown, a Miami neighborhood that transitioned from a vibrant cultural and commercial center for Black people to a community deeply impacted by gentrification, systemic racism, and widespread displacement. The subjects of Rawles’s paintings include a diverse range of Overtown residents, from young children to senior citizens, with the exhibition focusing on their stories and lived experiences within this …

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Image above: Calida Rawles, “Away With The Tides” (2024). Acrylic on canvas, 120 x 96 inches. Courtesy the artist and Lehmann Maupin, New York, Seoul, and London.

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