änalog or analogue
n. 1. Something bearing an analogy, or partial similarity, to something else

Like his much admired predecessors and contemporaries including Gerhard Richter, Chuck Close and William Delafield Cook, John Hart is fundamentally concerned with the complex, often ambivalent intersection between classical painting, photography and digital imaging. Employing photo-mechanical material as the impetus for their painting, such artists not only set one representational process against another, creating a tension in their work between the indexicality of photography and the conceptual or imaginative possibilities of painting. More importantly perhaps, by subjecting photography to this imitative approach, they subvert a prevailing assumption that photography heralded the demise of representational painting.