After years of photographing her Los Angeles community, contemporary artist Laura Aguilar (1959–2018), she/her, turned the camera on herself. Initially inspired by and made as a tribute to her friend and mentor, artist Judy Dater, Aguilar created a prolific number of nude self-portraits set in nature. Aguilar’s introduction of her body into the landscapes of Southern California and Texas forces us, as writer and author Macarena Gómez-Barris notes, “to consider the specific histories of violence of American colonization, often captured by the technologies of modernity that took static images of captive indigenous peoples.”  The four works displayed—from Aguilar’s Stillness and Motion series—were recently acquired for the museum’s permanent collection. The images from Stillness illustrate Aguilar’s self-portraiture while Motion demonstrates her collaboration with other individuals. Both series create powerful visual metaphors connecting her queer, Chicana, fat body to the land she occupies and directly challenge expectations of the nude femme figure in nature established by normative art history. Aguilar’s images visualize myriad modes of identification and enhance visibility for often excluded and disempowered bodies—challenging and subverting thin, white, heterosexual, able-bodied ideals.  Curated by Hannah Cattarin, they/she, assistant curator.