Morán Morán is thrilled to present Heartland, William Schaeuble’s debut Los Angeles solo exhibition. Rooted in the American Midwest, Heartland merges the surreal with the everyday in a new series of paintings created in the artist’s family garage amid the central Iowa landscape where Schaeuble lives and works. The exhibition takes its title from the term “heartland,” first coined by British geographer Sir Halford Mackinder to describe the fertile core of central Eurasia—believed, by him, to be the key to global dominance. From this concept, nationalist doctrines have drawn their own definitions of “heartlands,” imagined as cultural and political centers upon which identity and power converge. For the United States, the Midwest has long served as such a symbol, mythologized through Jeffersonian agrarian…