About

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.

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. In 2010, PCA partnered with us once again and with your help, collected food and funds for the Oregon Food Bank and Zimbabwe Arts Project. In 2011, we teamed up with superstars Chris Haberman, Jason Brown and Paul Middendorf to produce the show at Gallery Homeland in the Ford Building; it included over 300 artists on two floors, and collected over 1000lbs of food for Rose Senior Center & St. Francis Parish and collected donations for the Village Free School.

The show was initially crafted in 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 6 years, the Love Show has evolved into a diverse and complicated multimedia art happening in the hands of the participating artists.

This year, the show changes once again, moving from a huge open-call event necesitating lots of logistics and staff, back to it’s roots. The 2012 Love show will be an invitational call featuring work by Launch Pad Alumni and four-year Love Show artists; the show will be a lot smaller and it will take place at Launch Pad, where it was born. But fear not, there is still an open call element to the show- we will be hosting
an all-digital Love show, open to all artists anywhere!

More Details on the 2012 Show HERE