Peter Waanders and Rupert Jenkins
International gallery leaders Peter Waanders and Rupert Jenkins discuss the evolving global art market, the changing role of galleries and the perspectives shaping today’s collecting landscape. The conversation offers insight into the opportunities and challenges influencing the contemporary art world.
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About Peter Waanders
Peter Waanders is the President and Chief Executive Officer of Anderson Ranch. Peter embraces art-making as a neophyte – exploring various mediums for the simple pleasure of learning and making. He brought his business management and leadership experience to Anderson Ranch after serving as the Director of Society of Fellows at the Aspen Institute. Peter is active in the Roaring Fork Valley, having served as president of the Aspen Young Professional Association, President of the Rotary Club of Aspen, and on the board of The Buddy Program. He is currently the Vice-Chair of the Aspen Public Education Fund. He is married with two children.
About Rupert Jenkins
Beginning with the now-legendary 1951 Aspen conference on photography, Outside Influence: Photography in Colorado,1945–1995 by historian/curator Rupert Jenkins surveys the state’s post–WWII history of expressive photography. The title alludes to the historic presence of the natural landscape as subject and also to the transformative impact of out-of-state artists and educators. Their arrival in Colorado beginning in the 1960s galvanized interpretive photography by introducing innovative concepts, nontraditional materials, and emergent digital technologies to students, peers, and their audience-at-large.
Drawing from more than 120 personal interviews, Jenkins identifies the medium’s principal in-state creators, mentors, and advocates from the modernist era of film processing to the emergence of interdisciplinary digital practice. Outside Influence answers fundamental questions about the people and work of this era: Who generated this significant body of innovative, noncommercial photographic work? Where did they come from? Who inspired them, and who in turn did they inspire?
Rupert Jenkins has more than thirty years of experience working as a writer, curator, and gallery director in San Francisco and Denver. He has been researching and writing about post-WWII photography in Colorado since 2017. Jenkins is editor and contributing author of Nagasaki Journey: The Photographs of Yosuke Yamahata (Pomegranate Artbooks, 2005) and led the Colorado Photographic Arts Center, Denver, as board chair and then executive director for six years (2009–2015). Many of his interviews with photographers have been published on his Colorado Photo History blog (www.rupertjenkins.com).