Jean-Michel Basquiat: Art and Objecthood organized Los Angeles–based artist Calida Rawles

Los Angeles–based artist Calida Rawles (born 1976) creates unique portraits of Black bodies submerged in and interacting with bright

pop it in the gentle cycle of your dishwasher

charts and makes meaning of the semi-visible figure

which is shown alongside a later photo reproduction

contextualized within the rich cultural milieus in which she lived and worked

Jean-Michel Basquiat: Art and Objecthood organized Los Angeles–based artist Calida RawlesThe first book on Basquiat's ingenious uses of found objects and unconventional materials Bringing together a range of unconventional painted supports and found object sculptures, Jean Michel Basquiat: Art and Objecthood provides an innovative, in depth look into the artist's sculptural practice. In addition to painting and drawing on everything within his domestic spaces refrigerators, chairs, cabinets Basquiat made use of discarded windows and