Doug Ashford is a teacher, artist, and writer. From 1982 to 1996 he worked with the artist collective Group Material, which has produced 40 exhibitions and public projects internationally. His practice is described in Who Cares (Creative Time, 2006), featuring a series of interviews with Ashford on public expression, beauty, and ethics.
Abstraction as a Social Tool: Doug Ashford and Sam Gould in Conversation
Artists Sam Gould and Doug Ashford conduct a free-wheeling exchange on precision, abstraction, and interpretation—in art and language—as it relates to life, a binary political sphere, and un-commonality. This conversation stemmed from a prompt related to the Walker’s recent installation of Daniel Buren’s Voile/Toile Toile/Voile (2018).