Portland Love Show

We’re Doing Something Different…

Dear Love show Artists and Fans,

After 6 years of producing a huge show with hundreds of Artists, lots of moving parts, expensive permits, and myriad details to address, we at the Love show are taking a break from it all and trying something new, and we’d like you to come along!

I know that many of you look forward to the Love show all year as I do, and I’m truly saddened that we can’t produce the full-size show this year; I think of the Love show as a place where we can meet up with our fellow artists, exhibit work without the mental constraints of worrying about sales or juries, and dig deep into the complicated winter warrens of love.

Even though the large format, open-call show of the past few years isn’t going to happen with the Love Show this year, with your help we still hope to create art opportunities that will foster some honest work about love, and to share a meeting place where we can celebrate all of you who made previous Love shows great. We are eager to have you participate in these twin Love shows and make them awesome, and return to the rollicking hugeness next year!!

Love Show Offerings

The 2012 Love Show will be split into 2 parts, physical and virtual.

The physical show will be held at Launch Pad Gallery, the Love Show’s birthplace, and will be an invitational show open to artists/curators who have been featured in a solo/duo/small group show, and artists who have participated in 4 of the 6 Love Shows. There will be a size limit of 18″, a small artist fee to offset production cost, and a sales commission.

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Hindsight is 20/20: Love in Retrospect at Launch Pad

The virtual show will take place right here on this very website, will be an open-call show as with all previous Love Shows, will be strictly digital (an image of your piece will be shown here on the website and available for purchase, but there will be no physical show where the work is hung- for an idea of what it will look like, see examples of last years digital presence here). There will be no size limit on the actual work, but we will have parameters for the images that you will send in. There will be no artist fee, and a small sales commission that will be donated to a non-profit (probably Oregon Food Bank, but we’re open to suggestions)

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Love in the Cloud