Schroeder Romero is thrilled to announce the exhibition of Pants on Fire by Susan Hamburger; this marks her first solo exhibition with Schroeder Romero. Presented will be various works completed between 2006-2012 that intend to create a dialogue on the subject of American politics, both on a national and local level. Hamburger creates paintings, Arabesques and Grotesques using 17th and 18th century design motifs to investigate cultural imperialism, corruption and greed.

The central piece It’s Not Just a Job, It’s an Occupation, Part 1 (2006), was patterned after the Croome Court Tapestry at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. Here, beautifully painted in oil on canvas, the original medallions, after Boucher, have been replaced with images of two of Saddam Hussein’s overthrown palaces. This will be paired with another canvas featuring an image of the American embassy under construction in Iraq.

Hamburger recreates wallpaper panels in the Reveillon style which were the templates for The Low Road and The Cons (2009), both of which were created as a reaction to recent sex scandals and Ponzi schemes, and will be presented with The Nine, (2009) which depicts the bankers and government officials involved in the recent financial crisis.

Green Men (2010-2011), is a beautifully rendered multi-panel painted paper collage featuring the CEO’s of BP, Transocean and Halliburton at the time of the Gulf oil spill in 2010. Additional panels feature mythological creatures and monsters as an exaggerated vision of what arises out of ecological disasters.

The Return of Ongepatchket (3D) (2012) is a sculptural extension of the monsters and urns in Green Men. Inspired by Alan Weisman’s book, The World Without Us, which depicts what could happen when nature takes over places humans have developed and abandoned, Hamburger has created opulent urns and vases overrun with creepy things.

Hamburger will also have a solo exhibition Creeping Ornamentalism at the Visual Arts Center of New Jersey, Summit, September 14-December 2, 2012. She has participated in numerous exhibitions nationally and internationally including: Sama Tower, Suite 3708, Abu Dhabi, UAE; collectorspace, Istanbul, Turkey; Tomasulo Gallery, Union County College, Cranford, NJ; Priebe Gallery, University of Wisconsin, Oshkosh, WI; Herbert F. Johnson Museum, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY; among others.