Entre Raíces y Alas: Obras de Santiago Galeas / Between Roots and Wings: Works by Santiago Galeas

Santiago Galeas creates figurative paintings that interrogate the intersection of personal identity, ecological landscape, and cultural displacement. Working primarily in oil and acrylic, Galeas constructs layered compositions that merge portraiture with expansive natural settings, refusing the conventional separation of figure from ground. His practice centers the experiences of first-generation and immigrant queer Latinx Americans, depicting subjects within imaginative ecosystems that collapse geographic and temporal boundaries between Latin America and North America. Through saturated color and gestural mark-making, Galeas's work explores how identity—shaped by migration, queerness, and cultural heritage—fundamentally alters how we inhabit and perceive landscape.