Collections with Connections

This new exhibition at the Contemporary Art Gallery continues our exploration of the ways art is collected. In 1992 and 1993, we presented works from the City of Vancouver Art Collection managed by the Gallery. In 1994, we presented artists who collected other artists' work. These three exhibitions proved to be very popular.

This year we are focusing on individuals who have gathered art but who are not directly involved in the art world; that is, they are not artists or curators, nor are they affiliated with a visual arts institution or business. However, in one way or another, these individuals have friends who are artists and they support these friends in a variety of ways. They may buy work from their artist friends or they may buy work at the suggestion of an artist friend. This exhibition is not about individuals consciously creating a collection, but about encouraging a support system for artists.

Three individuals or couples have been invited to select work from their collection and to determine the arrangement on the Gallery walls. It will be an eclectic presentation of work that represents a number of different art communities in Vancouver and the individual sensibilities of the collectors. Those invited are Janice Dillon and David Gibbons, Doug Foster, and Anastasia MacDonald.