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Residence
galleryHOMELAND's Small Art Show. Over 50 of Portland's most noteworthy artists.
Geared towards all art lovers and new collectors, there is something affordable for everyone. If you would like to purchase works or just stop our gallery hours are from 12noon to 5PM every Saturday and Sunday. We are located at 916 se 34 place.
We have completed a solid year of grand events and programming and now Gallery Homeland presents Residence, its largest show of Portland's finest. Over 50 artists have contributed their best affordable works to benefit Homeland's Residency and National/International art exchange program. Residence provides Portland with small and accessible works of art from such amazing artists as:
Holly Andres |
Scott Wayne Indiana Ryan Jeffery Amber Moss Jenson Chris Johanson Tom Keating Jo Ann Kemmis Kendra Larson Erin Letterman Amy Lincoln Karl Lind Gabriel Liston Kurtis Lofstrom Marne Lucas Gero Maldonado Zak Margolis Brian Mathus |
Mary Mattingly |
Cynthia Star |
SCRATCHING THE SURFACE
July 14-30, 2006
Click here to view the artists' statements and images of the artwork from Scratching the Surface.
Scratching the Surface is a city-wide art project that will acknowledge and embrace the Willamette River’s powerful role in promoting culture through commerce and exploration and build symbolically on this role. We will utilize the Willamette as a contextual backdrop, as well as an actual physical force, to artistically explore the nature of what our rapidly growing city has been and what it is becoming while bringing positive awareness to the Willamette River.
With this project, we will bring together a group of artists working and living all over the country to collaborate in Portland. At various docking spots along the Willamette, artists will work together and with members of the community through lectures, performance, dance, music, and interactive sculpture.
Join us for the variety of events that will make up the project: site specific installations, gallery exhibits, film and video presentations, lectures and performance pieces. We’ll use the familiarity of the river as well as the comfort of a walk on the Esplanade to present creative work by many of Portland’s strongest emerging and established artists. As we “scratch the surface” of this extremely deep and rich resource, we will introduce people to a new way of seeing and participating in the life of their city. We will include everyone in the flow of ideas as audience and through interactive arts exhibits.
A stroll on the Esplanade will never be the same...
SCRATCHING THE SURFACE SPONSORS
Artscape
Beautysleep
Pacific Northwest College of Art
SCRAP
Widmer Brothers Brewing Company
SCRATCHING THE SURFACE SUPPORTERS
"Scratching the Surface is a great project that will highlight the role
art plays in bringing communities together. I look forward to the
unveiling of Scratching the Surface in Portland and hope everyone takes
the opportunity to experience it."
Mayor Tom Potter
City Commissioner Sam Adams
Carol Mayer-Reed of Mayer/Reed Design
Michael Montgomery Of Portland Oregon River Renaissance
The Sierra Club (Columbia Group)
Stephanie Snyder, Director of the Reed College’s Cooley Gallery
Tom Webb, Editor-in-Chief of The Bear Deluxe Magazine and Orlo Board Member
Rosie Williams
WALLPAPER, SCOTT WAYNE INDIANA
November, 2005Homeland showed new works and installation by Scott Wayne Indiana at the Troy Building in the SE and at the Wonder Ballroom. Wallpaper is a 72-foot piece completed over the course of several days. This composite of small drawings and paintings combines such thematic elements as chairs, gold, self-portraits, nose rings, and abstract expressions (sometimes explained with accompanying words). Also throughout the piece are various notes and small reflective sketches that retell recent occurrences. There is no riddle or narrative to decipher. Rather, Wallpaper is simply a long painting resembling the artist’s sketch book and revealing a reflective exercise of examining his own stream of consciousness as a visual representation: A prose painting.
In the article Richard Speer wrote in June “Art Wars”, he coins Indiana as one of Portland’s finest New Romantic artists along with other artists and curators such as Jacqueline Ehlis, Laura Fritz, Justin Oswald, and Jeff Jahn. Indiana has been showing in Portland for some time now, however only just getting solid recognition from his show last spring at Residence Gallery at Everett Street Lofts. He has shown with many galleries within the past three years including shows at Pause, Shift, Pepper, and our favorite space, The Hall. Indiana has been currently working on projects through his online site 39 Forks, an ongoing project that explores the inner artists as well conceptual projects throughout the city. He has collaborated with some local bands, including his works featured on The Very Foundation’s album Small Reserves. Homeland proudly presented Scott Wayne Indiana with one of his first spotlight shows.
HOMELAND FAMILIAR
September, 2005Gallery Homeland opened its doors in Portland during a hectic week of grand artistic events. Opening up with the show Homeland Familiar, we hosted 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.
Homeland Familiar also provided an opportunity to participate in Take Home Lovers, featured in Red 76’s Dim Sum, in which participants get to create and reassemble limbless stuffed animals.
THE FOUNDING OF EMPTY SPACE
A project of creation on familiar and unfamiliar grounds.December, 2004
Expedition #1
It has always been in our history to explore the uncharted reaches of the world. We set out on one of the last days of the year. The days were very short, as night slowly set in earlier and earlier. I have always taken fellow artists to join me in various shows and events locally and nationally. We have taken on many cities within our country and treaded similar grounds within confined spaces. I had just gotten back from Miami, where Mary Mattingly of Brooklyn and I, had built a vessel on the shores of South Beach in which to take on new lands. Taking our work outside of our given boundaries and starting fresh, we embarked on our journey with a group of artists. With this new project the idea is very similar. I planned a trip with two other people of like-minds and a dog. Our goal was to summit Mt. Hood in Oregon State. Of course our mountain climbing skills are minimal, so we hiked up as far as the elements and environment would allow and began our project.
Those involved:
Myself, Paul Middendorf- Artist and Curator
Nicholas DiSessa- Writer, Video Artist, and Painter
Mr. X- A friend and actual member of our fine Homeland Security
I have had many amazing conversations with this friend of mine on the arts and together have talked much about our given boundaries. Coming from a person whom actually “protects” these boundaries, we never have a dull chat.
and last-Our trusty guide Touco- a very large black lab mixThe Objective:
We hiked into slightly charted wilderness and left our mark of artistry. Not really following a path, the four of us began to climb up higher and higher. Within the woods of the mountain and sides of cliffs, we placed various art objects in the tress, under rocks, and inside bushes. All the materials were sure to withstand only a month or so of the snow and ice before disintegrating. We constructed livable structures on the mountain side and left various monuments made out of rocks, fallen trees, and smaller pieces of brush.
STAKING CLAIM
Staking Claim will be providing Portlanders with their very own plot of land to care for and love. The plots are small and will fit in a common yard or garden. Most plots measure 3ft cubed, and will come with grass and a bare flag pole. We will be delivering plots to be claimed for those who have signed up. Please email Paul for information on this projectand to sign up.
WELCOMING COMMITTEE
Welcoming Committee is a Gallery Homeland group project that celebrates the safe arrival of an unaware traveler to his or her given destination. Posted at such welcoming spots as the airport, train station, bus malls, or place of employment, Gallery Homeland will roll out the red carpet to greet the lucky traveler. The committee will include musicians, photographers, and celebrators, equipped with party favors, muffins, balloons and more. The unsuspecting person will also be given parting gifts and a ride into town. Stay tuned to Homeland to learn more about future locations of these performances.