Portland Love Show
The Portland Love Show began in February 2006 at Launch Pad Gallery with the goal of creating a safe and engaging space to highlight the many different types and attitudes that abound about love.
The show was initially a response to the annual deluge of heterosexist, consumerist, romance-centric advertising that Americans experience each year leading up to Valentine’s Day, but over the course of the last 5 years, it has evolved into a diverse and complicated multimedia art happening in the hands of the participating artists.
Between 2008 and 2009, the Love Show doubled in size and undeniably out grew Launch Pad. The show stepped up to the next level, pairing with local non-profit arts group Portland City Art and migrating to the spacious Olympic Mills Commerce Center in industrial S.E. Portland.
We had over 250 artists in the 2010 show! We can’t wait to start planning next year’s show and we look forward to getting YOU involved!
Love Show 2010
Launch Pad Gallery and Portland City Art team up once again to bring you the Love Show! This year, the show returns to the Olympic Mills Commerce Center with 350 artists (!!!) Read More
Love Show 2009
The 2009 Love show out-grew Launch Pad and so we partnered with curator Chris Haberman & Portland City Art (the Portland Mural Show, The Big 100, etc) to move the show to Olympic Mills Commerce Center, a much, much larger space! Some big changes in the 2009 show: No 2ft square size limit! Fund-raising do-gooder-y!! Multiple spaces to hang art!!! Over 200 artists! Read More
Love Show 2008
Yes! That’s right! The Love Show returns… For better or for worse, as we head into the depths of winter it is time once again to contemplate and reflect upon the most fickle and truly integral of emotions, Love. In our third annual salon-style open-call group show about love taking place this Fe... Read More
