Launch Pad Gallery & Portland City Art team up once again to bring you the Love Show, a huge open-call show about love of all types and shades, from romance to bromance, heart-ache to heartless to heartwarming, mysterious, delirious, deleterious, disappearing and reappearing, cheering, jeering and sneering- this show has room for your love or lack there of, because it’s not all pink hearts, chocolate and doilies. We’re honored to present the show at the Olympic Mills Commerce Center, where we will be sharing the love by collecting cans of food for the Oregon Food Bank at the opening and throughout month and donating 10% of our bar sales to American Red Cross Haiti Disaster Relief. We hope to see you there!
Opening reception for The Love Show is on Friday, February 12, 2010 at 7:00 pm. The show ends Friday, March 12, 2010 at 11:00 pm Free! All Ages! Olympic Mills Commerce Center 107 SE Washington East Portland, OR

Also this month:
There will be an opening reception for the Hey Girl at The Parlor Gallery on Saturday, February 6th from 7-11. 717 Cookman Ave., Asbury Park, NJ, 07712. (732) 869-0606. http://www.parlor-gallery.com Come experience the beauty and power of the Fairer Sex as portrayed by these amazing artists: Jason Kronenwald, Mona Superhero, Alison Brady, Pete Pederson, Ray Sell, Shawn Bishop -Leo, Kevin Peterson, Charmaine Olivia, Lisa Alisa, Maiko Sembokuya, Jeff Schaller, Billy Chuck, Porkchop and Charlie Owens.
As goddesses, seductresses, saints, sinners, and muses, the female has been a recurring subject in art for millennia. All of the artists in our new show create women in different media, ranging from tape to collage to paint to even bubblegum!