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Naima Rauam specializes in watercolors of the Fulton Fish Market and South Street Seaport, NYC. She also paints the waterfront, construction sites, cars, trains, and airplanes. Naima does commissions in oil and watercolor of many subjects, including posthumous and genre portraits, murals, and three-dimensional art works and tableaux. She lectures about her work as well.

Rauam's studio is in a 1907 Fulton Fish Market building overlooking the Brooklyn Bridge in Manhattan. In painting the fish market, a place which functions at night, Rauam has developed her skill in depicting light. Her paintings are known for their luminous light quality and for their conveyance of the unique visual characteristics of a subject, the feel of the thing or place as well.

Rauam's work is exhibited here and abroad and is in many private, public, and corporate collections including the Smithsonian Institution, American Merchant Marine Museum, Farnsworth Museum, Morgan Stanley Dean Witter, and Bank of America. She attended the Art Students League in New York City and the Corcoran Gallery School of Art in Washington, DC.

In 1998 Rauam was awarded an Artist's Fellowship by the New York Foundation for the Arts, Her work has been featured in the media including the New York Times, New Yorker magazine, Art in America, Watercolor magazine, "Going Places: New York City" (PBS-TV), Tribeca Trib, Staten Island Advance, New American Paintings, and Aquent Online magazine. Rauam also designed a cow for Cow Parade New York 2000. Her web site is www.artpm.com.

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