Closing Reception for Visual Aphasia

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San Diego-based artist John Brinton Hogan's most recent body of work and the exhibition’s focus, Visual Aphasia examines the prospect of a post-human Earth. While images are drawn from his photographed "natural landscapes," extreme distortion of their components creates an alien, inhospitable world, one whose visual details we’ve so far only imagined. Though beginning as “straightforward” photographs, through a series of repetitive processes, these pictures change from a simple description of an event into an opportunity to examine the artist's impulses, motivations, and consciousness, and imagine that of those with whom we share the planet.