Artist, Educator, Environmental Activist

You Can't Hide the Sun

You Can’t Hide the Sun
Two person exhibition with Ron Bechet
Other Plans, New Orleans, LA
April-June 2024
images by Stephen Lomonaco

“Chalew’s and Bechet’s work prophetically ground us in the realities of flooded plains, chemical landscapes, ancestral murmurs, and the current contradictions and addictions of our Gulf South region as a place of deeply rhythmic rhizomes planted in fertile cultural soils and toxic, glittery trash.”
- Denise Frazier, educator, musician, interdisciplinary artist

Full interview
of Ron Bechet and Hannah Chalew by Denise Frazier

Mud Returns (top right) and Bottomland Chimera (left foreground)

 

Study for Tangled Bank (left), Tangled Bank and Ron Bechet’s drawing

Bottomland Chimera (foreground) with Ron Bechet’s drawings

Palmate Cultivar (bottom left), Mud Returns (top left), Bottomland Chimera, Miscible Zone, and Ron Bechet’s drawing (far right)