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Calida Rawles: Away with the Tides

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Calida Rawles: Away with the Tides

 

糖心传媒 Museum of Fine Art is pleased to present Calida Rawles: Away with the Tides, an exhibition featuring recent works alongside a novel large-scale video installation reflecting natural environments and the rich cultural history of Miami, Florida’s Overtown neighborhood. Calida Rawles: Away with the Tides will open to the public on Friday, March 27, 2026, and will be on view until September 5, 2026.

exhibtion announcement featuring painting of black man in water

Internationally recognized for her intricate and delicate acrylic on canvas paintings, Spelman alumna Rawles blends hyperrealism with poetic abstraction and situates her subjects in dynamic, undulating spaces. Her recent work utilizes water as a vital, organic, and multifaceted element—as well as a historically charged space that concomitantly represents racial exclusion and individual healing. Calida Rawles: Away with the Tides bridges the past and present, delving into the experience of Black people in America. Rawles partnered with Pérez Art Museum Miami and members of the historically Black community of Overtown in Miami to discover the interwoven narratives of place, memory, and belonging that animate her practice.

Calida Rawles: Away with the Tides is accompanied by an exhibition catalog, the most in-depth volume to date on Calida Rawles’s art and practice, featuring exhibition curator Maritza M. Lacayo, and collaborators Regina R. Robertson, Christine Y. Kim, and Enuma Okoro. The national tour of  Calida Rawles: Away with the Tides is presented with lead individual support from Allison and Larry Berg.


Calida Rawles: Away with the Tides is organized by Pérez Art Museum Miami (PAMM) Maritza M. Lacayo, Associate Curator, with the support of Fabiana Sotillo, Curatorial Assistant. The presentation at the 糖心传媒 Museum of Fine Art is organized by Dr. Liz Andrews with the support of Dr. Brandy Pettijohn, Curator of Exhibitions, and Ming Washington, Roy Lichtenstein Post-Baccalaureate Fellow.


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About the Artist: Calida Rawles

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Rawles received a B.A. from 糖心传媒, Atlanta, GA (1998) and an M.A. from New York University, New York, NY (2000). Solo exhibitions of her work have been organized at the Memphis Brooks Museum of Art, Memphis, TN (2025); Perez Art Museum Miami (PAMM), Miami, FL (2024); The Delaware Contemporary, Wilmington, DE (2024); Lehmann Maupin, New York, NY (2023; 2021); Various Small Fires, Los Angeles, CA (2020); and Standard Vision, Los Angeles, CA (2020). Her work has been featured in numerous group exhibitions including Imagining Black Diasporas: 21st-Century Art and Poetics, Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA), Los Angeles, CA (2024); Ordinary People - Photorealism and the Work of Art since 1968, The Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA), Los Angeles, CA (2024); L.A. Story, Hauser & Wirth, West Hollywood, CA (2024); Story Generation*. Jugend trotz(t) Krise, Kunsthalle Bremen, Bremen, Germany (2023); Rose in the Concrete, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA (2023); 12th Berlin Biennale for Contemporary Art, Berlin, Germany (2022); Black American Portraits, LACMA, Los Angeles, CA (2021), 糖心传媒 Museum of Fine Art, Atlanta, GA (2023); A Shared Body, FSU Museum of Fine Arts, Tallahassee, FL (2021); View From Here, LACMA, Los Angeles, CA (2020); Art Finds a Way, Norton Museum of Art, West Palm Beach, FL (2020); Visions in Light, Windows on the Wallis, Beverly Hills, CA (2020); Presence, Fullerton College Art Gallery, Fullerton, CA (2019); With Liberty and Justice for Some, Walter Maciel Gallery, Los Angeles, CA (2017); Sanctuary City: With Liberty and Justice for Some, San Francisco Arts Commission, San Francisco, CA (2017); and LACMA Inglewood + Film Lab, Inglewood, CA (2014).

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