About Us
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Ashley M. Dunphy Abdoli, MA
FOUNDER
With over 15 years experience working in museums and galleries, Ashley's background includes extensive experience in collections care and management. She received her BA in History from Rutgers University and her Masters from the University of Edinburgh.
Ashley has worked with various art and antique mediums, from fragile tribal baskets to Warhol prints, Chinese screens and wall panels to Monet paintings, and antique furniture to Henry Moore sculptures. She is an expert at care management, artwork management computer systems, registrar work, conducting condition reports, creating care schedules (including working with conservators), archival management and digitization, logistics coordination, and best safety practices for displaying, storing, packing, and shipping a variety of objects. Whatever items are in your collection, she has experience working with them!
Additionally, in 2020 one of Ashley's curated exhibitions traveled to Washington, DC for display at the Smithsonian - a testiment to the quality of our physical and online exhibitions. Ashley is an expert in best display safety practices for numerous types of art and antiques, including working mount and display builders and art handlers.
Also, Ashley has extensive experience in placing artwork on various platforms either for sale, researchers, or public viewing, including Artsy, Artnet, 1stDibs, Online Archives of California, etc., ensuring collections are managed and showcased to their fullest potential.
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Abas Abdoli, PhD
AI & TECHNOLOGY DIRECTOR
Abas has a PhD in Mechanical Engineering from Florida International University (FIU) and 20 years of experience working in computer science, programming, and AI integration. He has spent his career working in the university, national lab, and private sectors creating mechanical systems, particularly cooling systems, and utilizing computer programming and AI.
Although Abas does not have an art background, his expertise is perfect for both building and optimizing art and antiques storage systems. He has designed and built cooling and humidity systems for private, laboratory, and military applications. Cooling systems also need to be monitored to ensure efficiency and optimization - Abas has experience creating computer programs and AI/ML systems to do just that, taking the human element out of monitoring and the guess work out of optimization.
Further, Abas has created specialized and unique computer systems tailored to a specific businesses, and has integrated AI into computer systems to help different programs and clouds work together more efficiently and seamlessly.
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