{"id":805,"date":"2011-05-22T17:24:22","date_gmt":"2011-05-22T21:24:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dougashford.info\/?page_id=805"},"modified":"2021-06-24T17:41:32","modified_gmt":"2021-06-24T21:41:32","slug":"about-contact","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/www.dougashford.info\/?page_id=805","title":{"rendered":"About"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Doug Ashford is a teacher, artist and writer. He is Professor at The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art where he has taught three-dimensional design, sculpture, public art and theory seminars since 1989.\u00c2\u00a0The\u00c2\u00a0collaboratively taught Intra-disciplinary Seminar that he began in 1997, remains a key part of Cooper&#8217;s programAshford also\u00c2\u00a0served\u00c2\u00a0as a visiting critic at Yale&#8217;s MFA in Painting program from 2011 to 2019, where he began his Non-Human seminar. Ashford\u2019s principle visual practice from 1982 to 1996 was as a principle member of\u00c2\u00a0the artists\u2019 collaborative Group Material,\u00c2\u00a0which produced\u00c2\u00a0over 40 exhibitions and public projects internationally between 1983 and 1996. Group Material\u00c2\u00a0aspired to transform\u00c2\u00a0the exhibition into an artistic medium &#8211; using display design and curatorial juxtaposition as a critical location where audiences were invited to imagine democratic forms. The group\u2019s work\u00c2\u00a0was beautifully collected in the book <em>Show and Tell: A Chronicle of Group Material,<\/em> (Four Corners Press, 2010)\u00c2\u00a0 &#8220;\u201c edited by Julie Ault, member and co-founder of the Group.\u00c2\u00a0 Since 1996, Ashford has continued to make paintings, write, and produce museum and public projects. His work in public practices are encapsulated in the book <em>Who Cares<\/em>, (Creative Time, 2006), a publication built from a series of conversations between Ashford and an assembly of other cultural practitioners on public expression, beauty, and ethics in 2006.\u00c2\u00a0 A collection of his work, <em>Writings and Interviews by Doug Ashford<\/em>, (Mousse Publishing and Grazer Kunstverein) was published in 2013. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.moussepublishing.com\/?product=\/doug-ashford-writings-and-conversations\/\">http:\/\/www.moussepublishing.com\/products-page\/product\/writings-and-conversations-by-doug-ashford-3\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>He is represented by Wilfried Lentz Rotterdam.<a href=\"https:\/\/wilfriedlentz.com\/artists\/doug-ashford\/\"> _ (link)<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Cooper Union website and contact. <a href=\"https:\/\/cooper.edu\/art\/people\/doug-ashford\">_ (link)<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dougashford.info\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/vita-2019_CU_app.pdf\">CV_(download)<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Doug Ashford, Professor<br \/>\nSchool of Art<br \/>\nThe Cooper Union<br \/>\n7 E 7th Street<br \/>\nNew York, NY 10003<\/p>\n<p>Studio email:\u00c2\u00a0<a href=\"mailto:studio@dougashford.info\">studio@dougashford.info<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/accounts\/login\/?next=\/deashford\/%3Fhl%3Den\">IG: @deashford<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Doug Ashford is a teacher, artist and writer. He is Professor at The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art where he has taught three-dimensional design, sculpture, public art and theory seminars since 1989.\u00c2\u00a0The\u00c2\u00a0collaboratively taught Intra-disciplinary Seminar that he began in 1997, remains a key part of Cooper&#8217;s programAshford also\u00c2\u00a0served\u00c2\u00a0as a visiting critic [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":11,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.dougashford.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/805"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.dougashford.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.dougashford.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.dougashford.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.dougashford.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=805"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.dougashford.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/805\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.dougashford.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=805"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}