The majority of the work is garbage. It looks like a sampling from an elemntary school's art show. One would be better served to take a tour of kitchens across the country and gaze upon the work displyed on the refrigerators of thrity-something soccer moms.

The majority of the work is garbage. It looks like a sampling from an elemntary school's art show. One would be better served to take a tour of kitchens across the country and gaze upon the work displyed on the refrigerators of thrity-something soccer moms.

hey brizzy is you crossed eyed.
Brizzy is a failed artist whos on a waiting list to show in a coffee shop.
Picture ping pong was refreshing and very original, Matthew Roriguezs work went beyond the gallery and flooded the streets of portland with grumpy faced candy corns and wooden eyes noses and smiles on to trees in the neighbor hood. Brightened my day and made me forget about those poor poor polar bears and iraq.
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hey brizzy is you crossed eyed.
Brizzy is a failed artist whos on a waiting list to show in a coffee shop.
Picture ping pong was refreshing and very original, Matthew Roriguezs work went beyond the gallery and flooded the streets of portland with grumpy faced candy corns and wooden eyes noses and smiles on to trees in the neighbor hood. Brightened my day and made me forget about those poor poor polar bears and iraq.
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Picture Ping Pong is a really RAD show!!! i'm a transplant from nyc..i've been livin' in portland for 6 years ever since i finished grad school at SVA.

i suspected there would be some conservative, old stodgie traditionalists giving this energy a hard time (hint. hint. Brizzy) but i want to shout HIP HIP HAPPY!! for Picture Ping Pong.

some galleries and artists are too buttoned-up to dress casual on occasions...to relax, play and so some of the small works that either feed larger projects or stand comfortably (without damar varnish or double matting) on their own.

I met three of the artists at the opening and understood VERY clearly the work was reflective of a supportive virtual community. I can imagine most of the artists also admire and respect children's art.

Breezy's comment is reflective of the kind of grumpy, elitist attitude i find MOST unappealing. My closest friends are soccer moms and I enjoy looking at their children's drawings almost as much as i enjoyed visiting Picture Ping Pong.

THank You Quality Pictures for a very interesting exhibition!!

Picture Ping Pong is a really RAD show!!! i'm a transplant from nyc..i've been livin' in portland for 6 years ever since i finished grad school at SVA.

i suspected there would be some conservative, old stodgie traditionalists giving this energy a hard time (hint. hint. Brizzy) but i want to shout HIP HIP HAPPY!! for Picture Ping Pong.

some galleries and artists are too buttoned-up to dress casual on occasions...to relax, play and so some of the small works that either feed larger projects or stand comfortably (without damar varnish or double matting) on their own.

I met three of the artists at the opening and understood VERY clearly the work was reflective of a supportive virtual community. I can imagine most of the artists also admire and respect children's art.

Breezy's comment is reflective of the kind of grumpy, elitist attitude i find MOST unappealing. My closest friends are soccer moms and I enjoy looking at their children's drawings almost as much as i enjoyed visiting Picture Ping Pong.

THank You Quality Pictures for a very interesting exhibition!!

Brizzy obviously missed the point-- the name of the show itself: "picture ping pong," clearly illustrates and invokes a particular nuance of youthful abandon that has been (and I think Tootsie here was getting there with his/her comment) lost to a majority of the artistic community at large who take themselves way too seriously.

There is a truth to be had in the eyes of a child. And these artists, who began their communion over myspace, a fairly youthful medium of exchange in itself, have throughout their posts and works, either wittingly or unwittingly, reflected the juvenescence of the medium within their work properly.

Think of myspace-- it, in its current form is rather crude and elementary, even though the thoughts behind it and exchanged therein might be loftier and heavier than the medium's evolution have allowed its exhibition to exude. Clearly, a curation developed from such a medium should again, either wittingly or unwittingly reflect that.

I possess today, the same soul I had as a child, although I have since being a child, developed and learned more symbols to communicate those ideas/ideals of that youthful soul with. In fact, these symbols, archetypes and memes learned in older age are easier for me to express with currently than the simple colrs of a twelve pack of crayons I drew with in my "greener" days. It is then, perhaps, more of a challenge for these artists in "Picture Ping Pong" to speak with the metaphors of a tender age rather than the stuffy agglomeration extended with the contemporary dialogue of "the masters." They should be commended.

I say, let them play. May we always remain, as Emerson said, as "Olympian bards who sung Divine ideas below, Which always find us young And always keep us so."

I am unable to traverse to make the Portland show physically-- but I have watched it grow since its insemination within this virtual womb of communique, and think its pure championship. Hats off to all involved.