Date Change | Calida Garcia Rawles
OPEN TO THE PUBLIC | Merging sharp hyper-realism with poetic abstraction, Los Angeles-based Calida Garcia Rawles paints African-American women and men submerged in glistening water; bodies are swarmed by a flurry of bubbles, ripples, and refracted light. Rawles received a B.A. from Spelman College in Atlanta and an M.A. from New York University. Recent solo exhibitions of her work were organized at Various Small Fires, Los Angeles, CA (2020) and Standard Vision, Los Angeles, CA (2020). Her work has also been featured in numerous group exhibitions including Art Finds a Way, Norton Museum of Art, West Palm Beach, FL (2021); View From Here, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA (2020); Visions in Light, Windows on Wallis, Beverly Hills, CA (2020). Rawles recently created the cover art for Ta-Nehisi Coates’s debut novel, The Water Dancer. Her work is in numerous public and private collections including the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, CA and the Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, NY.
Please note that this event, originally scheduled for April 20, will be occurring on April 27.