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<tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>}}</div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>}}</div></td></tr>
<tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>The '''Strange Pear Gallery of Fine Arts''' is a community-run virtual art gallery in [[Special:MyLanguage/VRChat|VRChat]], created by Oz Pearsall. It operates similarly to a physical small-town art gallery, allowing artists to submit and <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">sell </del>their work <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">while keeping all proceeds from sales</del>. <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Pearsall</del>, a <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">gouache painter</del>, <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">has been credited with helping </del>to <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">repopularize physical painting commissions of virtual avatars</del>.<ref name="<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">immersivism-history</del>">[https://<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">www</del>.<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">immersivism</del>.com/<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">history </del>"<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">History</del>"] on ''<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Immersivism</del>''. Retrieved April <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">8</del>, 2026.</ref></div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>The '''Strange Pear Gallery of Fine Arts''' is a community-run virtual art gallery in [[Special:MyLanguage/VRChat|VRChat]], created by Oz Pearsall. It operates similarly to a physical small-town art gallery, allowing artists to submit and <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">display </ins>their work. <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">The gallery hosts monthly gallery show openings with live music, twice-weekly open houses</ins>, <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">and </ins>a <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">variety of special events. By its third anniversary in September 2025, over 140 artists had displayed nearly 2,000 pieces at the gallery</ins>, <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">which had grown </ins>to <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">more than 4,000 group members</ins>.<ref name="<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">fandom</ins>">[https://<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">vrchat-legends</ins>.<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">fandom</ins>.com/<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">wiki/Strange_Pear_Gallery_of_Fine_Arts </ins>"<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Strange Pear Gallery of Fine Arts</ins>"] on ''<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">VRChat Legends Wiki</ins>''. Retrieved April <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">9</ins>, 2026.</ref></div></td></tr>
<tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td></tr>
<tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>== History ==</div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>== History ==</div></td></tr>
<tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>The Strange Pear Gallery <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">was founded in </del>September 2022, <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">originally </del>housed within VRU, a VRChat world created by TheCastle. <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">The gallery later moved to its own dedicated world</del>. Over time <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">it </del>grew into a regular gathering point for the VRChat art community, described as one of several "virtual salons for users to attend and share work with."<ref name="immersivism-history" /></div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">=== Founding and VRU Oasis era (2022–2024) ===</ins></div></td></tr>
<tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-side-deleted"></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>The Strange Pear Gallery <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">opened on </ins>September <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">15, </ins>2022, housed within <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">[[Community:</ins>VRU <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Oasis|VRU Oasis]]</ins>, a VRChat world created by TheCastle. <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Its first event lasted two hours</ins>.<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;"><ref name="fandom" /> </ins>Over time <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">the gallery </ins>grew into a regular gathering point for the VRChat art community, described as one of several "virtual salons for users to attend and share work with."<ref name="immersivism-history"<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">>[https://www.immersivism.com/history "History"] on ''Immersivism''. Retrieved April 8, 2026.<</ins>/<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">ref</ins>></div></td></tr>
<tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td></tr>
<tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>In <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">October 2025</del>, the gallery <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">participated in </del>the VRChat <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">[[Special:MyLanguage/Group Fair|Group Fair]]</del>, <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">hosting open</del>-<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">house events across multiple days of the event</del>.</div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">=== Standalone world (2024–present) ===</ins></div></td></tr>
<tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-side-deleted"></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>In <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">May 2024</ins>, the gallery <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">announced it would leave </ins>the <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">VRU Oasis to become a standalone </ins>VRChat <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">world</ins>, <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">citing space constraints in the original venue. A separate area called "The Pear Grove" was established in VRU 2.0 as a thank</ins>-<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">you to TheCastle</ins>.<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;"><ref name="fandom" /></ins></div></td></tr>
<tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td></tr>
<tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">On April 8</del>, <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">2026</del>, <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">VRChat announced a collaboration between </del>the <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Strange Pear </del>Gallery <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">and [[Special:MyLanguage/Space Jam|Space Jam]].<ref>[https://bsky.app/profile/vrchat.com/post/3miyuvcb5f22n VRChat announcement] on ''Bluesky''. Dated April 8</del>, <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">2026. Retrieved April 8</del>, <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">2026</del>.</<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">ref</del>> <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">The contest invites fine art submissions through the Strange Pear Discord, with selected works to be featured in a digital fine arts gallery hosted in VRChat. Submissions are open until May 1, 2026.</del></div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">The new Strange Pear world</ins>, <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">built by Spoonie and themed as a repurposed factory in the Appalachian Mountains</ins>, <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">opened to </ins>the <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">public on July 4, 2024, debuting with </ins>Gallery <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Show 22</ins>, <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">"Hidden Realms</ins>,<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">" featuring a record 26 artists</ins>.<<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">ref name="fandom" </ins>/></div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>== <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Overview </del>==</div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>== <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Events </ins>==</div></td></tr>
<tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>The gallery <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">hosts regular community </del>events, including monthly gallery <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">openings </del>with <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">live music</del>, <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">weekly </del>open-house events, art <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">workshops</del>, <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">and occasional special </del>events. <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Artists aged 18 </del>and over <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">may submit work by joining </del>the gallery's <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Discord server</del>. <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">The gallery does not display NFTs or </del>AI-generated <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">images </del>(with some cleared exceptions).</div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">=== Recurring schedule ===</ins></div></td></tr>
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<tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-side-deleted"></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">=== Gallery shows ===</ins></div></td></tr>
<tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-side-deleted"></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Gallery shows are numbered sequentially and each carries a unique theme name. At each opening, entirely new art by 15-27 artists is displayed alongside a solo exhibition by a featured artist and a live musical performance. Art rotates entirely between shows.</ins></div></td></tr>
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<tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-side-deleted"></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">As of April 2026, the gallery has held over 40 numbered shows. Show 30 in March 2025 marked a milestone of 30 consecutive monthly shows with more than 110 artists and 1,650 artworks displayed. </ins>The <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">first show held in the standalone world was Show 22, "Hidden Realms," on July 4, 2024. The final show in the original VRU Oasis venue was Show 21, "Mind Palace," on June 6, 2024.</ins></div></td></tr>
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<tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-side-deleted"></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Beyond its regular programming, the </ins>gallery <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">has hosted art workshops, figure drawing classes, comedy art classes, poetry nights, ambient sound performances, and themed social events. Anniversary celebrations in September each year feature extended six-hour </ins>events <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">with workshops</ins>, <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">talks, and performances by multiple musicians and guest groups. The gallery's one-year and two-year anniversaries both followed this format, with the one-year event in September 2023 </ins>including <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">art workshops, yoga, storytelling, and a live particle-art performance.</ins></div></td></tr>
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The '''Strange Pear Gallery of Fine Arts''' is a community-run virtual art gallery in [[Special:MyLanguage/VRChat|VRChat]], created by Oz Pearsall. It operates similarly to a physical small-town art gallery, allowing artists to submit and sell their work while keeping all proceeds from sales. Pearsall, a gouache painter, has been credited with helping to repopularize physical painting commissions of virtual avatars.<ref name="immersivism-history">[https://www.immersivism.com/history "History"] on ''Immersivism''. Retrieved April 8, 2026.</ref><br />
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== History ==<br />
The Strange Pear Gallery was founded in September 2022, originally housed within VRU, a VRChat world created by TheCastle. The gallery later moved to its own dedicated world. Over time it grew into a regular gathering point for the VRChat art community, described as one of several "virtual salons for users to attend and share work with."<ref name="immersivism-history" /><br />
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In October 2025, the gallery participated in the VRChat [[Special:MyLanguage/Group Fair|Group Fair]], hosting open-house events across multiple days of the event.<br />
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On April 8, 2026, VRChat announced a collaboration between the Strange Pear Gallery and [[Special:MyLanguage/Space Jam|Space Jam]].<ref>[https://bsky.app/profile/vrchat.com/post/3miyuvcb5f22n VRChat announcement] on ''Bluesky''. Dated April 8, 2026. Retrieved April 8, 2026.</ref> The contest invites fine art submissions through the Strange Pear Discord, with selected works to be featured in a digital fine arts gallery hosted in VRChat. Submissions are open until May 1, 2026.<br />
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== Overview ==<br />
The gallery hosts regular community events, including monthly gallery openings with live music, weekly open-house events, art workshops, and occasional special events. Artists aged 18 and over may submit work by joining the gallery's Discord server. The gallery does not display NFTs or AI-generated images (with some cleared exceptions).<br />
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== Immersivism ==<br />
On August 3, 2024, K. Guillory of ''The MetaCulture'' gave a presentation at the Strange Pear Gallery on the history of fine art depicting virtual worlds, hosted by Oz Pearsall.<ref>[https://www.themetaculture.co/youre-invited-to-an-art-party/ "You're Invited To An Art Party"] on ''The MetaCulture''. Retrieved April 8, 2026.</ref> The event was followed by a community discussion and public poll to name the emerging art movement. Nineteen name suggestions were compiled by artists at the gallery, and on August 16, 2024, "Immersivism" won by a wide margin. '''Immersivism''' is defined as the practice of depicting people, places, and ideas in or of virtual worlds through fine art.<ref>[https://www.themetaculture.co/and-the-winner-is/ "And The Winner Is..."] on ''The MetaCulture''. Retrieved April 8, 2026.</ref><br />
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The term independently echoed earlier work by artist Bryn Oh, who had predicted in 2020 that the word "Immersivist" would be used by virtual artists.<ref name="immersivism-history" /><br />
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== External links ==<br />
* [https://www.ozpearsall.art/strange-pear Strange Pear Gallery of Fine Arts] at ''ozpearsall.art''<br />
* [https://vrchat.com/home/group/grp_36750235-eb7f-418b-981a-643309a68bf7 Strange Pear Gallery] VRChat Group<br />
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== See also ==<br />
* [[Special:MyLanguage/Space Jam 2026|Space Jam 2026]]<br />
* [[Special:MyLanguage/Group Fair|Group Fair]]<br />
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