With Jeffrey Boone and Glen Alteen
This ongoing series builds on one of Griffin Art Project’s mandates to make privately held art collections accessible to the public. Join us in person at Griffin Art Projects with collector and UBC MA Candidate in the Critical Curatorial Studies Jeffrey Boone and curator and writer Glenn Alteen.
In this iteration of Conversations on Collecting we will see collections as a record of the relationships between the artists and the collector. As part of a collection, artworks can be rich markers of a time, place, or experience and yet may never have been shown beyond the studio and collectors home. Outside of a collection, artworks may or may not intersect market forces. However, the value of an artwork will always lie in a relationship of exchange. Collections afford us an opportunity to discuss the impulse to connect.
Newfoundlander Jeffrey Boone has engaged in project development, acquisitions, exhibitions, and international tours facilitating access to artists' studios, collections, and cultural sites. With a background in curation and cultural event management, he is a passionate traveller who, with his partner David, collects contemporary art and meaningful objects. Formerly, he has operated a commercial gallery, managed events and festivals, led art initiatives, including chairing the Contemporary Art Society of Vancouver. Guided by relationships he has worked to foster community and engagement. He is currently an MA candidate in the Critical and Curatorial Studies program at UBC.
Glenn Alteen is a Vancouver based curator and writer and founding program director of grunt. He was cofounder of LIVE Performance Biennial (1999, 2001, 2003, 2005). His writing was recently published in Other Places - Reflections on Media Art in Canada (MANO 2019), Wordless - The Performance of Rebecca Belmore (grunt 2018), Unceded Territories Lawrence Paul Yuxweluptun (MOA 2016). As program director of grunt gallery Alteen was active in creating sustainable administration practices through the purchase of a facility (1995) and the creation of the grunt gallery Legacy Fund (2006), an endowment held by the Vancouver Foundation and the Blue Cabin Residency Program (2018). Currently Alteen is a member of the Vancouver Public Art Committee for the City and for the last two years on the City’s Arts and Culture Advisory committee as a representative from PAC. In 2018 Alteen was awarded Governor General’s Award in Visual and Media Art for Outstanding Contribution to Contemporary Practice.