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In this moment with heightened emphasis on place, regulations surrounding borders, and those situated inside and outside of them, this exhibition considers the landscape. Landscape painting, no matter how serenely rendered, is political, as it presents a view regulated by a boundary, whether it be political, socioeconomic, or physical. Landscapes are unifying: nonspecific or abstracted landscapes allow viewers from vastly different backgrounds to project their own ideas of place 鈥� be it home or fantasy 鈥� into them. Collected Views: I Am Herepresents over 40 works of landscape, a few interiors, and abstractions that occupy the spaces in-between the two, all part of the UB Art Galleries permanent collection. This grouping explores themes of inside/outside, text and image, and place. Of the few interiors and figurative works presented here, the people and animals depicted offer the viewer an isolated glimpse of interiority in relation to an imagined world outside of the scene. Consider the text-based works from the lense of graffiti, one version landscape painting fraught with tension, which also clearly states, 鈥淚 am here!鈥� To declare 鈥淚 am here!鈥� 鈥� be it through mark-making, dialogue, or political action, is to exist.