Raphaëlle Goethals: The Possibility of Remembrance
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Front, and Back Cover Detail: Angel, 2021 encaustic, oil and mineral pigments on panel 63 x 53" Above Image: detail shot of Raphaëlle Goethals’ studio, photographed by Herb Lotz
Raphaëlle Goethals: The Possibility of Remembrance Turner Carroll Gallery is delighted to present The Possibility of Remembrance, Raphaëlle Goethals’ third solo exhibition at the gallery. This show opens 17 June 2022. Having lived in the American West for nearly three decades, Goethals’ and her practice evolved alongside her own experience of the United States, while her memories growing up as a Northern European never fully faded from view. Neither rejecting nor quoting the past, these two perspectives are now integrated in the large painting titled Demiurge. Borrowing its palette from Flemish Renaissance masters, the painting is an exploration of gold, with distinctive linear marks of red, viridian, and cobalt blue. Already present in past bodies of work, these lines now rise to the surface in bold delineation of the vertical and horizontal. As suggested in the painting’s title, the piece refers to creative energy itself. About her work Goethals says, “Embracing compositions, such as the circular shape I introduced a few years ago, allowed me to continue a deeper investigation into how I’ve been addressing light, space, and the passing of time within a painting. When I think about my work, it is not in words: it is all intuition, emotion, and grace. However, I’ve been taking more time lately to explore themes thoughtfully and intellectually so that it all comes together in a distinctly new way.” The darker purples and violets, paired with subtle blues and grays woven in the surface of the sixty inch, circular Shakti, create a hypnotic and gravitational pull, leaving the painting open to the viewer through poetic polysemy. The complex surface moves and swirls, like the most delicate jetties in a stream or the most vast galaxies in the sky. Goethals creates these lyrical, multi-layered painterly abstractions utilizing a highly refined mix of hot and cold encaustic technique. With the paintings lying flat, she slowly builds the surface, pouring, painting and scraping the molten medium of pigment, resin and beeswax. The paintings contain evidence of their long evolution, like strata in the earth. Two-thirds of the way toward completion, the piece is set vertically allowing for more decisive and precise brushwork applied in countless feathery, translucent overlays. “My paintings are rooted in memory and emotions; their complex layered surfaces build organically over time. We connect to the layered content the same way we are confronted by a pulsating, interconnected, multi-layered world,” says Goethals. Created in the last two years, this group of paintings continues Raphaëlle Goethals’ exploration into compositions and themes first introduced in the summer of 2020. Her complex and meticulous mark making vibrates with a sense of rhythm and lyrical beauty that offers viewers a range of psychological and aesthetic experiences.
“References to light, space, art history, climate, and political instability…all of this percolates through in some way, but when I think about my work, it is not in words. It is all instinct, emotions, grace”. - Raphaëlle Goethals
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Shakti, 2021, encaustic, oil, and mineral pigments on birch panel, 62 x 62" framed, 60 x 60" unframed
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Zia, 2022, encaustic, oil, and mineral pigments on panel, 31 x 41" framed, 30 x 40" unframed
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Waimanu, 2022, encaustic, oil, and mineral pigments on panel, 41 x 31" framed, 40 x 30" unframed
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Demiurge, 2022, encaustic, oil, and mineral pigments on panel, 55.5 x 109.5" framed, 54 x 108" unframed
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Anaphe, 2022, encaustic, oil, and mineral pigments on panel, 63 x 69" framed, 60 x 66" unframed
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Deluge, 2021, encaustic, oil, and mineral pigments on panel, 63 x 69" framed, 62 x 68" unframed
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Borealis II, 2021, encaustic, oil, and mineral pigments on panel, 39 x 67" framed, 38 x 66" unframed
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Photo Credit: Tasha Ostrander
About Raphaëlle Goethals
Raphaëlle Goethals was born and raised in Brussels, Belgium. She is a graduate of the Ecole le Septantecinq, and immigrated to the United States in the early eighties to continue her studies at the Otis Art Institute in Los Angeles. After a decade in Los Angeles, she moved to New Mexico where she developed her painting style. Goethals’ work is widely exhibited in the United States and Europe. Her paintings have been featured in numerous publications such as Wall Street International, University of Chicago Press, Visual Art Source, Architectural Digest, ArtNews, Art in America, Nexus, Glasstire, Blouin Artinfo, THE Magazine, and various others. Her paintings have been featured at international art fairs in Dallas, Chicago, Seattle, San Francisco, and Miami, and are held in numerous distinguished corporate, museum, and private collections.
Selected Collections Albers Enterprises, Oakland, CA McManis Collection, San Jose, CA Boise Art Museum, Boise, ID Mitchell Brown, Scottsdale, AZ Blue Oak Capital, Palo Alto, CA Museum of Contemporary Art, Scottsdale, AZ Blue Star Properties, Chicago, IL NB Design Group, Seattle, WA Carolyn Eason Collection, Santa Fe, NM New Mexico Museum of Art, Santa Fe, NM Chesterman Company, Sioux City, IA New Mexico State University Museum, Las Cruces, NM Daniel and Daun Dees, Aspen, CO Paul Allen Collection, Seattle, WA Daum Museum of Contemporary Art, Sedalia, MO Propel Insurance, Tacoma, WA DuFay Aviation, Las Vegas, NV Regent Bal Harbor, Bal Harbor, FL Ginnie Searcy, Dallas, TX Ring Associates, Los Angeles, CA Grace Museum, Abilene, TX Ritz Carlton, Palm Beach, FL Henis Technologies, St. Louis, MO Ruth Ziegler, New York, NY Herstand Collection, Key Biscayne, FL Stephen A. Wynn, Las Vegas, NV Hewlett Packard, San Francisco, CA Sydley Austin LLP, Dallas TX Holdenried Collection, Grünwald, Germany Time Warner, New York, NY Hutchinson Telephone, Hutchinson, MN Topfer Collection, Austin,TX Kennedy Group, Dallas, TX Tucson Museum of Art, Tucson AZ Lincoln National Corporation, Radnor, PA United Health Care, New York, NY Linda Givon, Johannesburg, South Africa Weill Cornell Medical Center, New York, NY Manulife Wood Logan Inc, Santa Barbara, CA Winston and Strawn LLP, Dallas, TX
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