It’s heating up in Portland. No, the infamous rain remains, but their next art show is pretty hot. Four of the hottest artists making out at the same time? Well, it is a Four-Way Make Out session. Before your mind gets lost in the gutter, we’ll let you know that Four-Way Make Out is a showing of new work by Matt Furie, Jay Howell, Matthew Feyld and Dawn Riddle opening September 5th at Grass Hut in Portland. Instead of bios, Grass Hut asked the artists to tell us about their favorite make-out session. That’s the kind of info everyone wants anyways, right? We love Matt Furie’s blunt pseudo poem that he gave for his reply: i flipped on my bedside lamp warm red light bulb she put her lap near my face i unzipped her pants and slowly took them down i kissed her warm red panties then i evacuated into my boxers Scaandalous. Now that we’ve got you all hot n bothered, get that voyeuristic mind of yours over to grasshutcorp.com for details on Four-Way Make Out.

Ben Tour, Ferris Plock, Jeremy Fish, Kim Cogan, Gary Baseman, Maya Hayuk, Henry Lewis, Cody Hudson, Hilary Pecis, Andrew Schoultz, UPSO, Jason Reamer, Paul Urich, Kelly Tunstall, Matt Furie, Kelsey Brookes, Mel Kadel, Tiffany Bozic, Travis Millard, Ryan Scott Shaffer, Mars 1, Brendan Monroe, Jay Howell, and Michael Sieben. Yep, all these great artists will have pieces in Fecal Face Gallery’s The Benefit Show, opening tomorrow July 10th. Together these artists represent a visual history of the art site, a chronicle of a community and style that it the backbone of Fecal Face’s content. Displaying paintings, illustrations, photographs and mixed media works, The Benefit Show offers an epic group showing to benefit upcoming Fecal Face projects. Details at fecalface.com/gallery

Jay Howell and Matt Furie Return to Innocence at San Francisco’s Receiver Gallery. Showcasing the pair’s hilariously perverse drawings, Return to Innocence does exactly the opposite: it takes you to the heart of everything that’s wonderful about kiddie humor with a grown-up twist. Hey, sometimes seeing a hot dog simultaneously screw and smoke is exactly what we need on a Friday. See more here…

On Friday night, November 16th, Wonderwheel opens at Toyroom Gallery in Sacramento, California. Five artists—Nathan Cordero, Garin Moore, Judd Hertzler, Jay Howell, and Shawn Miles Carney—all tied by the bonds of common interests in art, music and the skate/snowboard industry, all from Northern California—from the coast to the mountains; all five can be categorized under the broad umbrella aesthetic known as D.I.Y. with a mixture of multi-media and found objects mixed with simple characters in ridiculous circumstances that bring this brotherhood together. Their show will run November 16th through December 8th. www.toyroomgallery.com

Shown: Jay Howell The beards at Grass Hut Corp., using all their hairy wiles, have curated a group show featuring new work from Jay Howell, Scott Barry, and Skinner. The show, Spiritual Boner (that. is. AWESOME.), will open this Friday, November 2nd at Grass Hut Gallery in Portland, Oregon with a reception from 6-9 pm. This is a sweet show, so try to show up if you can. For more info, visit the Grass Hut blog at grasshutcorp.blogspot.com.

Photos from Half Assed, Todd Bratrud's solo show at Fifty24SF in San Francisco, CA. The exhibit opened Thursday, September 6th. Isaac McKay-Randozzi brings us another set of delightful photos and a mini-review of the show.

Fecal Face Dot Com's 7.5 Year Anniversary art show at 111 Minna in San Francisco, is this Thursday, August 2nd, 2007. Yes, we are very lucky to live here. ART FROM: Andrew Schoultz (SF), Alexis Mackenzie (SF), Brendan Monroe (Berkeley), Chris Pew (SF), Chris Von Szombathy (Vancouver), Christofer Chin (LA), Cody Hudson (Chicago), Corey Arnold (Portland), Edward Woodley (Sydney), Ferris Plock (SF), Gregory Euclide (Minneapolis), Jay Howell (SF), Jeremy Fish (SF), John Casey (Oakland), John Copeland (NYC), Keith Shore (New Jersey), Kelly Tunstall (SF), Kelsey Brookes (San Diego), Kill Pixie (Sydney), Kyle Ranson (SF), Lukas Geronimas (Vancouver), Mars (SF), Mat O'Brien (SF), Matt Furie (SF), Maya Hayuk (NYC), Maxwell Loren Holyoke-Hirsch (SF), Mel Kadel (LA), Michael Sieben (Austin), Michelle Blade (SF), Mike Giant (Albuquerque), Mike Maxwell (San Diego), Monica Canilao (Oakland), Niall Mcclelland (Vancouver), Paul Schiek (Oakland), Paul Urich (SF), Robin Williams (NYC), Sam Flores (SF), Saelee Oh (LA), Tessar Lo (Ontario), and Travis Millard (LA). {moscomment}