Gallery Homeland opens its doors in Portland during a hectic week of grand artistic events. Paige Saez and Paul Middendorf are eager to introduce a new exhibition space with which to encourage emerging and challenging concepts in visual and performing arts. Homeland opens to provide the region with interdisciplinary exhibition space to display emerging and challenging concepts in the visual and performing arts. September 29th 2005 926 SE 34th Ave. (on the corner of 34th and Belmont )

Paul Middendorf of Manifest Artistry and Paige Saez of Red 76 and Martial Art are two artists in their own right who are also dedicated to fostering a sustainable artistic community in Portland Oregon. Our new venue and project space is in the heart of southeast Portland, right on 34th and Belmont.

From large scale public projects featuring many of Portland’s favorite artists to trans-continental exchange programs Homeland is here. Opening up with the show Homeland Familiar, our newest pdx gallery hosts three cherished Portland artists. Zak Margolis, Charles Moss and Amy Steel.

Zak Margolis has been making a reputation for himself in Portland for quite some time, with haunting yet beautiful animation and stunning music. His work has been featured in the PDX Experimental Film Festival, PDX Film Exchange in Chicago and is founding member of the much loved Pacific Switchboard Gallery. Charles Moss is a Portland newbie, bringing us a series of process-based experimental paintings from New Jersey. A graduate of the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Moss has shown work in upstate New York, Chicago and Miami with Lifeboat. Moss presents us with an exciting series of mono-prints and organic landscapes. Amy Steel, an Art Institute grad herself, and a Pacific Switchboard staple is the missing link of the Familiar. While teaching at Pacific Northwest College of Art, she has still managed to exhibit around the US. Amy’s work explores issues of gender, desire, and sexuality.

Please join us for a fantastic evening of events, art, and live music provided by Squish and Tim DuRoche/Doug Theriault/Jonathan Sielaff. Talk with the new Directors about the future of Homeland or participate in the Take Home Lovers featured in Red 76’s Dim Sum in which participants get to create and reassemble limbless stuffed animals.

HOMELAND doors open up at 7pm , with live music starting at 8pm.

926 SE 32nd Place located at the intersection of 34th and Belmont.

For more information contact Paige Saez or Paul Middendorf 503-819-9656 pcsaez@hotmail.com or pmiddy@manifestartistry.com