Dr. Alexis Salas specializes in Latin American and Latino/a/e/x art and visual culture. Dr. Salas simultaneously holds the positions of 2024-25 Terra Visiting Professor at Freie Universitat in Berlin, Germany and Endowed Assistant Professor of arts in the Americas in art history at the University of Arkansas.

Abstract

Euro-American landscape painting offers an extensive cis het patriarchal view. The long connection of brown and queer people with the earth, I argue, enables a vista refiguring those power dynamics. Using a critical gender and race framework, Salas considers how the work of several queer Latinx artists can be considered in tandem with larger social phenomenon such as plant parenting, clean eating, and community gardens as well as how queer Latinx queer connects to spirituality, survival amidst settler colonialism, and renewed uses of the Anthropocene.