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Remembering to Forget: Strategies of Propaganda and Mythology

May 15, 2008- June 21, 2008

Reception: May 15, 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm

Charles Browning

Schroeder Romero

637 W 27th St

Schroeder Romero is pleased to present Remembering to Forget: Strategies of Propaganda and Mythology by Charles Browning in the main gallery and Uncultivated by Lynn Cazabon in the project gallery.

Everything in nature is lyrical in its ideal essence, tragic in its fate, and comic in its existence. - George Santayana

The past is never dead. It's not even past. - William Faulkner

The paintings of Charles Browning offer a complex interplay of Art and History, humor and brutality, sincerity and irony, narrative and allegory. They present us with a "new" history painting, one that lays claim to a position of authority among the images of the past. Browning's sincerely flat-footed love of an anachronistic form of painting adroitly skewers the propaganda of frontier mythology. Using the associative potential of historical imagery and narrative, the scope of Browning's work expands to implicate us all in the goings on within.

What's your strategy? Blow on west, shooting and drinking, and before you know it, you've conquered a continent. Use it or lose it! "We The People" shall decide who shall be included in "The People." All others will serve or be destroyed, absorbed, or forgotten. We move closer to the self-evident truths and inalienable rights laid out at the founding of the nation by eliminating inconvenient claimants. And they will keep popping up!

What's wrong with this picture? We live in funny times. We live in unfunny times. A confluence of Nationalism and Romanticism in 19th century American painting forms an image of the nation, a cultural foundation for the idea of Manifest Destiny, for Paul Bunyan, Kit Carson, Daniel Boone and Davy Crockett. Distract the people from real dangers with shadow play. Shoot where there are easy targets. Sound familiar? Tell us another story of our great success, a story to explain away the cruel clowns and buffoonish brutes from then till now.

This is Browning's first solo exhibition with the gallery. Recent group shows include Promised Land at Morgan Lehman Gallery, curated by Elizabeth M. Grady and Keeping it Real at Richmond Center for Visual Arts, Western Michigan University in Kalamazoo, curated by Jerry Kearns.

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Location   Gallery Schroeder Romero Address 637 W 27th St New York (Chelsea) NY, 10001 United States Phone 212-630-0722 Hours Tue-Sat 11-6 Nearby: All 2 galleries at 637 W 27th St

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