This exhibition at Luise Ross Gallery presents a new series of paintings by T.L. Solien commemorating and celebrating—and perhaps, at times, deconstructing—the westward expansion in the United States in the 19th century. Several of the paintings were suggested by old photographs Solien found in researching the period. Others are informed by an amalgam of artistic invention and interpretation of the institutional history—economic, social, religious, familial—and the impact of the natural environment on this extended chronological and vast territorial adventure. Underlying all, neither incidentally nor anachronistically, are the artist’s personal life experience and autobiography.