1994
Or Gallery is one of several artist-run galleries in Vancouver that are part of the city’s non-commercial art scene. Artist-run spaces occupy an art-world ecological niche somewhere between commercial galleries and the Vancouver Art Gallery.
The Or’s name doesn’t originate in some clever separation of Or from Either. But it does come from an unusual source.
The gallery started in 1983 when Laiwan, fresh out of art school at Emily Carr, moved into ...