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REVIEW: ‘FROM THE STORMS OF OUR SOULS’ THE ART OF RON BECHET at the CONTEMPORARY ART CENTER

REVIEW: ‘FROM THE STORMS OF OUR SOULS’ THE ART OF RON BECHET at the CONTEMPORARY ART CENTER

Terrence Sanders-Smith
Contemporary Art

Featuring fifty large-scale charcoal works investigating Black visuality through the lens of nature, From the Storms of Our Souls: The Art of Ron Bechet, curated by Shana M. griffin, is on view at the Contemporary Art Center, New Orleans. Ron Bechet is a visual artist who works in drawing and painting and is the Labat Endowed Professor of Art at Xavier University. Shana M. griffin is a feminist activist, researcher, sociologist, abolitionist, artist, and geographer who curated Gestures of Refusal: Black Photography and Visual Culture at the CAC last year.

Read Full REVIEW by Veronica Cross in the WINTER issue.

Street Date: Tuesday December 9th 2025

Veronica Cross

Veronica Cross is a visual artist, arts writer, and material culture specialist. She hosts an art-and-music-centric radio show featuring interviews and discussions of cultural events on WHIV 102.3 FM New Orleans. She has exhibited regionally and nationally, and occasionally directs independent curatorial projects and is the archive manager of Louisiana-born live music photographer Gervaise Soeurouge. 

REVIEW: SIX DEGREES of SEPARATION at SMITH Contemporary

REVIEW: SIX DEGREES of SEPARATION at SMITH Contemporary
REVIEW: TARLETON BLACKWELL 'THE GREAT SHOW' at the OHR-O'KEEFE MUSEUM OF ART

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