While you’re making the First Friday rounds tonight, stop by the Launch Pad Gallery (543 SE Oak) for their 3rd annual Love Show, which promises to be a “psychic counterweight to a visual/advertising world completely consumed with heterosexual coupling, pink hearts, diamonds and chocolate.” I suspect that my personal psychic counterweight to Valentine’s Day is going to involve 1) wine; 2) Weeds; and 3) talking to my cat like he’s a person—but hey, to each her own.

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….

Last years Love show had over 100 people in it working in painting, drawing, photography, collage, printmaking, sculpture, poetry, video, song, text, textile and the like. This year, we have 118 people signed up, the only limitation being that work must be 2ft x 2ft or smaller- so far, the images we’ve seen are awesome, and it only gets better from here, with an overwhelmingly strong showing of free standing sculpture!

Featuring:
Maniacal world dance tracks by DJ GLOBAL RUCKUS
A special love-themed set by TRY MY CABBAGE of the PAN ZEN Konspiracy Nettwyrk
and live music by the love-filled LARRY YES (for those of you who missed him at this past month’s opening)

Live performances begin around 7:30 pm and continue through out the night, get there early to see it all!