Launch Pad Gallery: Featuring the work of local emerging artists.

A Swan Song, A Love Letter, A Blanket

New work on paper by Rochelle Koivunen

Featuring installation by Pollution Party & recycled plastic bag sculptures by Katie Simpson
Rochelle Koivunen’s new body of work features wall painting, five large scroll-mounted mixed-media works on paper and a suite of smaller framed portraits. The work depicts tender relationships between humans and animals- refugees nurturing and caring for each other symbiotically once again as we move away from the anonymity and isolation of consumerism, technology and throw-away culture into a radically changed world where we all have to work together in order to survive.

Mini Opening: First Friday July 4, 2008 6pm – 9pm

Opening Celebration
Friday, July 11, 2008
6pm-12am

Featuring DJ Pocket at 6pm and free, all-ages music & performance starting at 8pm
by Adivina, Bryce Panic, Mary Rose, Exoh Exoh, Pelican Ossman, DJ Maxx Bass

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PAY ATTENTION!!!

new work by emerging artists curated by established artists

A uniquely curated group show featuring unrepresented, emerging artists hand selected by established, represented artists. This show highlights relationships that exist within the local community of artists that are largely invisible to the world of collectors, critics and gallery owners. The show aims to address and refute the culture of assigning value to artwork and artists based on gallery representation, critical attention & commodity status. What would happen if instead, we as a local art community chose to refocus the conversation around more relevant questions: Does the work move you? Does the work provoke you? Does the work challenge your ideas about what art is? Is it good, even if you can’t hang it over your couch?

Our guest curators feel that the artists they have selected make work that deserves your time and consideration-
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The Suspended Garden of Disbelief

New Paintings by Brent Wear

In a drastic departure from his illustrative, character-driven work, Portland artist Brent Wear presents a series of imaginative and ethereal abstracts. Using salvaged wood panels from the industrial Southeast neighborhood, driftwood and the occasional found art piece, Wear creates organic scenes and moods in a palate of blues, greens and pinks. Starting with intuitive forms and gestures and continuing with layering and blurring techniques, Wear creates atmospheric paintings reminiscent of floating gardens and watery reflections. Through the fluidity of color and form, each piece promotes meditation on the beauty of paying attention. more»

a ghost, a possessor/ The Deposed

New Oil Paintings by Jaik Faulk

This show questions power and masculinity through abstract portraiture, exploring power and its tendency to distort and manipulate us, as if it had a mind of its own. more»

Lord Have Mercy

New works on paper by your friendly neighborhood artist David Stein

David leads the viewers through scenes of unusual fairy tales with detailed ink and watercolor illustrations… see it to believe it!
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The 3rd Annual Love Show

Work by over 100 artists responding to the ineffable force of love

In our third annual salon-style open-call group show about love taking place this February we aim to create a visual dialogue about love in it’s many incarnations and interpretations, be it self love, sorrow, lust, confusion, hope, bitterness, gentleness, deception, romance, imagination, jealousy, true love, young love, love lost, parental, filial, adversarial love, the surrounding abundance of love or love as the unknown…. more»

Crones on the Verge

External Images of Internal Dialogues

Yvonne O’Gara and Rhonda Kennedy collaborate to create an installation of warmth and comfort in the cold wet winter.

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Innard Blues

Paintings, Drawings & Music by Anna Todaro

Anna Todaro’s “Innard Blues”, a limited edition full-color zine/audio release of new paintings and songs by Anna inspired by the monster poems of Patrick Bocarde, Melissa Sillitoe and Curtis White-Carroll. Each copy is signed and numbered, make sure to get your
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Crossover

Martha Wallulis & Krislyn Dillard

New abstract Oil on canvas and gouache on paper paintings.
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Currents

Mark Jacques, Seth Neefus, Timothy Karpinski & David Wien

A mixed-media installation about water by four good friends
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Secrets

A Huge Salon-style group show about visually exploring secrets of all kinds

“Secrets” Artists, Please Click Here for details about picking up your work

Pssst!! Over 100 local artists answered the call to make one piece each about a common thread that runs through all of our lives, secrets. There is a ton of small work (2ft x 2ft or less) in a wide variety of media, including Painting, Drawing, Printmaking, Photography, Collage, Sculpture, Installation, Video and Sound.

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Microforms

New Works by Garry Hood

Mono- and di-chromatic drawings on illustration board and clayboard

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Barbie Meltdown Theatre

An Intergenerational Exploration of Gender and Sexuality

An art exhibition brought to you by queer art collective QuArt PDX, featuring artists from SMYRC and GenderBlendz more»

photographs: pictures that came from my camera

Enlarged Polaroids by Jeremy Pelley & Julia Blackburn

Empty places, Desolate landscapes, Sparse nothingness. They turned their cameras to the empty places and desolate landscapes. What emerged were simple color fields and sparse minimal dreamscapes. more»

Outpour

Jennifer Mercede

New Text-Heavy, Brightly Colored, Ultra-Active Urban Painitngs! more»

Release: Navigating the Smallest Bones of Autumn

New Paintings by Daniel Papke

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The Love Show

All that which is love.

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How We Relate

Brent Wear and Friends Make Art Together.

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30″ x 30 x 30”

Launch Pad's One Year Anniversary Show!!!

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Shrines, Altars and Reliquaries

Intimate Installations Inspired by the Day of the Dead

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Into the Pumpkin Shell

New Illustrative Paintings by Jessica Hassler

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The Time at Hand

New work by Michelle Mckay & Kathleen Simpson

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On Love

The first annual Love show

The First ever group show we did! Over 70 artists! Work all about Love! more»