Lehmann Maupin: Calida Rawles 'This Time Before Tomorrow'

12 Sep-27 Sep 2025

Calida Rawles, When Time Carries, 2025, acrylic on canvas, 182.9 x 243.8 x 5.1 cm. Credit: Courtesy of the artist and Lehmann Maupin, New York, Seoul, and London. Photo by Marten Elder.

Overview

Lehmann Maupin presents This Time Before Tomorrow, the first London solo exhibition of internationally recognised painter Calida Rawles, which presents a new body of work that explores cycles of time and human experience. In her signature, hyperrealist paintings, serenely composed figures wade and float in water. For Rawles, the liquid element is a charged substance which reflects and refracts issues of race, power and access. This exhibition comes on the heels of Rawles’ first solo museum exhibition at the Pérez Art Museum in Miami in 2024, as well as her inclusion in the 12th Berlin Biennale in 2022.

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