Raphaelle Goethals - Selene

Raphaelle Goethals – Séléné

Raphaelle Goethals is an artist from Belgium who now lives and works in New Mexico. She creates atmospheric paintings, often with a grid of small spaces where the eye can rest. Goethals sees the sky as our sea in her beloved New Mexico, often referring to it as a “liquid sky.”

View the works in the exhibition here. View the video on the works in the exhibition here.

Goethals’ paintings have been featured in numerous museum exhibitions in the U.S. and Europe, including a recent solo exhibition at the Morris Graves Museum. Raphaelle Goethals is one of a group of remarkable women artists such as Georgia O’Keeffe, Agnes Martin, Agnes Pelton, Susan Rothenberg, Linda Benglis, Florence Pierce, and Judy Chicago who ere and are instrumental in creating the world-renowned contemporary art center of Santa Fe.