John Brinton Hogan
[Image description: A photograph of John, a man with light skin and short, light brown hair, wearing jeans and a sweater. He is seen sitting on a table in his studio, smiling at the camera.]
John Brinton Hogan's work examines ideas, issues, and artistic interpretation associated with landscape and land use, primarily in the American west. He has exhibited around the world, and his pieces are held in public, institutional, and private collections.
Self-educated, he refined his technical skills photographing professional skateboarding during its resurgence in the 1980’s, and later worked as a commercial photographer and filmmaker in New York City and Los Angeles. He resides in San Diego, CA.
His most recent body of work, entitled Visual Aphasia, examines the prospect of a post-human Earth. While images are drawn from photographs made in the field, the extreme distortion of their components creates an alien, inhospitable world, one whose visual details we’ve so far only imagined.
In this work, sci-fi novel illustrations, 70's album covers, and “Finish Fetish” references combine to produce a document describing our species' possible future. By employing materials normally associated with lighthearted household craft (glossy paints, glitter, holographic appliqué), tension develops between the aura of childlike wonder and paranoid uncertainty, simultaneously rendering the human presence both familiar and unrecognizable.
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