Carolyn Olbum & Raphaëlle Goethals - "Here and Now: Regeneration"

“Isn’t that all we really have?” Asks Carolyn Olbum, who’s sculptures of discarded tree limbs, rotten roots, and dried vines tell a story of regeneration. Abstract painter, Raphaëlle Goethals, challenges space and time with ethereal compositions that root us in a present moment of beauty. Olbum weaves nature and art together through organic forms and scavenged objects. She immortalizes and recontextualizes her findings by casting them in bronze to create visual poetry, or what she calls, “sculptural haiku.” Olbum gracefully translates environmental fragments into a cohesive whole, which take on a life of their own. Raphaëlle Goethals is known for her signature layered encaustic and sophisticated minimalism, fusing to create non-representational masterpieces. Her works are void of any sense of gravity, with emphasis on light, texture, and emotive color. Similar to Olbums ability to capture and freeze her subject, Goethals suspends the viewer weightlessly in front of her morphing galaxies.