The 4th Annual Portland Love Show
An Open-call Salon-style group show about Love of all Kinds! Featuring over 200 artists!!
February 13th - March 26th, 2009The 2009 Love show offers BIG THANKS TO OUR SPONSORS: BEAM Development, Eroi, Smarttech A/V, Hopworks, Phoenix Media, Parr Lumber on MLK, Grand Central Bakery AND… Chris Haberman, Kat at the OLCC, Dennis at the Office of Neighborhood Involvement, Nicole at Olympic Mills Commerce Center, TAC Team Leader Autumn VanEsso, our volunteer coordinator Leigh Lowry and all of our amazing volunteers who are made the show possible.
Partial proceeds of the Love show 2009 benefited OREGON FOOD BANK and BUCKMAN ARTS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
Press Release- Love show ’09
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CLOSING PARTY MADNESS! Firstly, Big thanks to Theo Craig (who is Indicon Booking), Ry and Eric from Smart Tech A/V, and all of our many volunteers without whom this event would not have been possible! Of course a thousand loving springtime thank you’s to all of our performers- please support them like they support you: Papa Coyote, Mega*Church, Ryan Dolliver & DBL DRGNZ, Chervona, Sonja & Skye,Sallie Ford, Justin Power, Nick Caceres, Erika Ryn, Aries Spires, DJ Jusayn & DJ Rhoane
NEWS FLASH…The opening was a smashing success! We collected tons of food for the food bank and so many people came. Forgive us if you had to wait in a long bar line- still figuring that part out. Big thanks to DeadLetter B, PDXIloveyou, Saturday Morning Cartoon Extravaganza, All of our vendors for bringing the love, andStumptown Sawyers, Spider and Fly, Gemini Project & DJ TRY MY CABBAGE for performing at the opening! Pictures will be coming soon.
About the Show
Ah, Optimism.
The Love show started out as a very reasonable humble endeavor with the following clear goals: to do a non-juried show about love, open to everyone be they beginner or professional; to highlight the complex nature of love as a contrast to all the syrupy romantic schlock we are bombarded with leading up to Valentine’s day; to make a fun, low pressure, non-commercially oriented environment to show vulnerable, honest work. It was the 3rd show at Launch Pad and with 77 people, it far exceeded our wildest expectations.
The goals for the show remain unchanged, but now, 3 years later, the scale has shifted up considerably. The Love show has out-grown Launch Pad and so we have partnered with curator Chris Haberman & Portland City Art (the Portland Mural Show, The Big 100, etc) to bring you the 2009 show at Olympic Mills Commerce Center., a much, much larger space!
Some big changes with this years show: No 2ft square size limit! Fund-raising do-gooder-y!! Multiple spaces to hang art!!! More artists!!!! (currently over 250 artists are signed up)
If you have any Love show specific questions or you’d like to volunteer, please email us at loveshow4@launchpadgallery.org
Friend-Up with Olympic Mills on Myspace Here
See you at the Love Show!
Participating Artists:
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Lisa Albinger , Michelle Anderson , Serena Appel , Melissa Armstrong , Hunter Armstrong , John Alexander Arnold , Damon Ayers, Natasha Bacca , Dimitrina Bakurdjieva , Natalie Ball , Katherine Ball, E Dan Barker , Matthew Barta, Quinn Beckett, Delphine Bedient , Margarete Beeson , Nicole Bereczki & Clint Kaster , Jason Berlin , Ian Bernard , Andrew Binkley , Julie Blackman , Ric Blair, Mary Blankenburg , Chuck E. Bloom , Carly Bodnar , Jacquelyn Bond , Jessica Bonin , Jacqueline Bos , Sarah Boss , Theresann Bosserman, Cyan Bott, Jess Bronk , Gretchen Brooks, Deana Brown, Chris Brown, Maureen Bullis , Jilawan Bunnimit , Leslie Butler , Fernando Cabrejos , Michelle Caplan , Holly Cappello , Robin Carlisle, Greg Carrigan, Kristin Casaletto , Richard Cawley, Sara Cella , Shelley Chamberlin , Natasia Chan , Eat Cho , Larry Christensen, Sarah Ciampa , Anna Clark, Dante Cohen , Dayna Collins , Dayna Collins , New Colony , Colleen Cormack, Kindra Crick , Elena Cronin , Deborah Crowther, Sarah Cruse , Larry Cwik , Michelle Daly , Charles Daniels , Sue Danielson , Kevin Darras , Kate Davidson, Carli Davidson , Jason Davis , Kimball Davis , Jeremy Davis , Jennifer Dayton , Erika Ryn Dean , Mel Defabrizio, Christopher Delange , Shawn Demarest , DEVO, Michael Dodson , Virginia Driscoll , Kenya Dubois , R. Eddy , Kara Edge, Adam Ellis , Tamara English , Bruce Evans, Grace Fae , Jenn Feeney , Michael Fields , Gabe Flores, Kathy Fors, Mark Fox , Nicole Fox, Vicky Frankland, Matt Franklin , Michelle Freedman, Adrienne Fritze , Talus Fritze-Moor, Dan G , Angela Gay , Micheline Gibbons, Daniel Gill , Joey Gill , Jennifer Gleach, William Goodman, John Graeter , Julie Gragg, Sara Greer, Lana Guerra , Sam Guerrero , Chris Haberman, Crystal Hall, Thomas Hamlin , Meg Hanson , Cherie Hanson , Sabina Haque , Chris Harback, Kate Harback, Carrie Hardison , Heather Hargesheimer , Ariana Harley , Elizabeth Hartung, Dena Hastings , Marlena Hatchel , Keenan Havens , Terence Healy , Andrea Heiemr, Sally Heppner , Sarah Hermanutz, Christopher Himes, Julia Hoisack , Christopher Hoisington, Courtney Holtzclaw, Steve Homoly, Garry Hood, Samae Horner, Nick Howard , Leah Jackson, Sam Jespersen, Aunia Kahn , Jason Kappus, Reva Keller, Juanita Kenworth , Lea Keohane , Yosha Kness, Elsbeth Knott, Rochelle Koivunen , Melissa Kojiima , Denise Krueger, Todji Kurtzman , Katherine Langlands , Tara Lavery
, Aren Lawler, Steven Lawrence , M@ Leavitt , Anjali Leboeuf, Jennifer M. Lee , Joy Leising , Samuel Lensen-Callas , Betsy Levine, Horace Long , Alisa Looney , Leigh Lowry, Rich Mackin , Kate Madden, Anna Magruder , Dafna Margalit, Jordi Marin-Gest, Ademar Matinian, Lisa Maurine, Kristen Maus , Jadene Mayla , Shannon Mayorga , Scotty Mazariegos , Sara McCormick , Bethany Mccraw, Josie Mckenzie, Carolina Medina-Dupaix , Jennifer Mercede , Ryn Miller , Todd Molinari, Mo Morales , Kelsey Mosley, Suzanne Moulton, Kevin Murphy, Dulcinea Myers-Newcomb, Kelly Neidig , Bruce New , Christine Nockels-Wyatt , April O’Connor , Joanne Oleksiak, Nicholas Orr , Amber Oxford , Daniel Papke , Greg Pearlman , Pat Pearson-Henry, Kelly Pelka , James Pereira, Kelly Pergande, Ben Pink, Maryann Puls , Liv Rainey-Smith , Michelle Ramin , Tashi Rana , Remedios Rapoport , Briana Ratterman, Lee Ritter, Mario Robert , Alyssa Roehrenbeck , Scott Rohlfs , Brigette Romaker, Adam Ross, Edward Rossel De Jongh , Destree Rudolph , Romaine Rupp, Richard Schemmerer , Matt Schlosky , Sean Scott , Katrina Scotto Di Carlo, Erika Sears , Your Self, Mary Sharp, Marie Shelley, Cin Shepherd , Beth Ann Short , Katie Simpson , Micki Skudlarczyk , Deana Skyles, Scot Smith, Jerry Soga, Kirk Solberg, Adam Stacey, Jason Lee Starin, A. Hunter Sunrise, Quin Sweetman , Mrrranda L. Tarrow , Terri Taylor, Jean Margaret Thomas, Zach Tobias, Anna Todaro , Arthur Tucker , Michelle Tuffias, Robin Urton , Rebecca Van Stralen , Autumn Vanesso, Martha Wallulis , Jamie Watson, Curran Wedner , Erinashleigh Wehmeyer, Julianna Weir , Jason Wells, Alisha Wessler , Caper West , Mark Wickum , Lisa Wilde , Tabitha Williams, Heidi Wirz , Linda Womack , Marissa Woodrow , Jana Woodson, Cathie Joy Young , Mona Zillah , Crystal Zingsheim
Selected Pieces
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 Love show Closing Email Card |
 Gary Hush |
 G*Force |
 Kirk Solberg |
 Dulcinea Myers-Newcomb |
 Wade Womack |
 Alisa Looney |
 Jess Bronk |
 scott Mazariegos |
 Sarah Cruse |
 Rich Vail Mackin |
 Natasha Bacca |
 Christopher Brown |
 Melissa DeFabrizio |
 Kenya DuBois |
 Shelley Chamberlin |
 Michelle Ramin |
 Katrina Scottodicarlo |
 Jenny Dayton |
 Chuck E. Bloom |
 Jennifer Mercede |
 Grace Fae |
 Matt Warren |
 Jenn Feeney |
 Dimitrina Bakurdjieva |
 Jason Davis |
 Larry Christensen |
 Katie Simpson |
 Mark Fox |
 Kimball Davis |
 Sally Heppner |
 Julia Blackman |
 Lana Guerra |
 Jason Starin |
 Brigette Romaker |
 Mark Wickum |
 Jacquelyn Bond |
 Crystal Hall |
 Angela S. Gay |
 E Dan Barker |
 Virginia Driscoll |
 Damon Ayers |
 Keenan Havens |
 VOYEUR- benpink |
 Christopher DeLange |
 Christopher Hoisington |
 Cathie Joy Young |
 VOYEUR- Cathie Joy Young |
 Kelly D. Pelka/paranoidgirl |
 Shawn Demarest |
 Autumn Van Esso |
 Nicholas Orr |
 Steven Lawrence |
 Remedios Rapoport |