{"id":30,"date":"2016-08-18T20:47:00","date_gmt":"2016-08-18T20:47:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dougyoungalive.com\/wp\/?page_id=30"},"modified":"2018-09-10T15:52:43","modified_gmt":"2018-09-10T15:52:43","slug":"about","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/dougyoungalive.com\/index.php\/home\/about\/","title":{"rendered":"About"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"max-width: 700px;\">\n<h2>About<\/h2>\n<p>Brooklyn artist Doug Young questions everything.<br \/>\nHe is currently directing his inquisitiveness to our relationship with nature\u2014a place of refuge, exploration, and exploitation. Young\u2019s new paintings propose museums as microsystems of both curiosity and corrupt expansionism, focusing on how nature is often in service to society.<\/p>\n<p>Doug Young\u2019s works explore tensions between the natural and manmade world in a manner that is dystopian yet hopeful. Employing the technique of reverse painting on glass, Young creates a visual experience that uses illusion and wonder as an antithesis to oppressive systems that devalue individual labor and personal expression.<\/p>\n<p>Along with reverse painting on glass, Young works in traditionally recognized folk art mediums of woodworking and rug hooking. He engages with labor-intensive crafts that celebrate the material over the cerebral and its egalitarian approach to art making. Young is a student of American popular culture, and the folk arts offer him a means to speak to the spirit of America\u2019s rich creative past while using imagery and iconography that address our urban and technological present.<\/p>\n<p>In 2001 Doug Young was awarded the Guinness Book World Record for the longest nonstop banjo performance in history\u201424 hours total.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"margin-top: 40px;\">\n<h2>Contact<\/h2>\n<p>For further information, email <a href=\"mailto:doug@dougyoungalive.com%C2%A0\">doug@dougyoungalive.com <\/a><\/p>\n<p><a style=\"text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"http:\/\/eepurl.com\/PvwpT\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Sign Up here<\/a> for email updates<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/dougyoungalive\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-298\" src=\"http:\/\/dougyoungalive.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/glyph-logo_May2016_200_white-e1473012232970.png\" alt=\"insta-logo\" width=\"30\" height=\"30\" \/>\u00a0\u00a0On Instagram<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>About Brooklyn artist Doug Young questions everything. He is currently directing his inquisitiveness to our relationship with nature\u2014a place of&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":171,"parent":9,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"template-aboutMe.php","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-30","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/dougyoungalive.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/30","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/dougyoungalive.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/dougyoungalive.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/dougyoungalive.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/dougyoungalive.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30"}],"version-history":[{"count":25,"href":"http:\/\/dougyoungalive.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/30\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":658,"href":"http:\/\/dougyoungalive.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/30\/revisions\/658"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/dougyoungalive.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/9"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/dougyoungalive.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/171"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/dougyoungalive.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}