Or Gallery
555 Hamilton Street
Vancouver, BC v6b 2r1
Canada
T +1 604 683 7395
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www.laartbookfair.net
The Or Gallery is pleased to announce its participation in Printed Matter’s LA Art Book Fair (January 31–February 2) and concurrent LA launch of Guilty, 1950 (2010) a newly released photographic edition by Vancouver artist Stan Douglas from his acclaimed “Midcentury Studio” series.
Stan Douglas
Guilty, 1950 (2010)
Special fundraising edition for the Or Gallery
Produced as an edition of 25 (with 5 APs)
Digital fibre print mounted on dibond aluminum
Overall dimensions 28 x 34.5 inches (image size 18 x 24 inches)
Stan Douglas produced his “Midcentury Studio” series of photographs in 2010, meticulously staging a series of photographs under the conceptual premise that they were the work of an anonymous Vancouver photographer practicing between 1945 and 1951. Work in the series includes studio shots of fashion and hair models, promotional shots for entertainers, candid street scenes and film noir-like snapshots of possible crime figures caught in the glare of a blinding flash bulb, destined for the newspaper pages. Guilty, 1950 is of this latter category. Reminiscent of the crime photography of Weegee (Arthur Fellig), the work depicts a well-coiffed man walking up a narrow stairwell, covering his face with his open palm against the ambushing photographer.
The Or Gallery is also launching a new edition of Ten Shows, an artist’s book by Barb Choit, published in collaboration with Black Dog Publishing, London. Other recent Or Gallery publications include Vancouver Anthology, edited by Stan Douglas (co-published with Talonbooks), Cockatoo Island (co-published with Bywater Bros.), 12 Sun Songs LP (with Keller Editions/JRP Ringier), Exercises in Kinesthetic Drawing and Other Drawing by Aaron Carpenter, and Night Shift LP by Brady Cranfield and Jamie Hilder.
Please visit table Q06 at the LA art book fair January 31–February 2, or contact the Or Gallery directly.
Barb Choit and Aaron Carpenter will be onsite on Saturday, February 1 to sign books.
About the Or Gallery
The Or Gallery (est. 1983) is a non-profit artist-run centre committed to exhibiting work by local, national, and international artists whose art practice is of a critical, conceptual and/or interdisciplinary nature. Since its inception, the gallery has acted as a space for research, proposition making, conceptual experimentation and documentation.
