Art Focus

On Tuesday December 11, 2018, at 11.30 a.m. Joseph Gallivan interviews curator Peggy Sue Amison about the photo show In Transit which is on now at Blue Sky Gallery through December 30. Amison will talk about five photographers whose work is about displacement and the realit... Read more

On Tuesday December 4, 2018, Joseph Gallivan interviews painter Ralph Pugay [pron. poo-guy] about A Spiritual Guide to Brute Force, his show at Upfor Gallery now through December 22.  Pugay talks about the semiotics of his imagery, his learning the CMYK screen printing proc... Read more

On Tuesday November 27, 2018, Joseph Gallivan interviews Robert Hoffman of the American Institute of Architects. Hoffman talks about the legacy of Whitney M. Young’s speech on diversity in architecture 50 years ago, and which cool buildings to go as a result of the recent 2... Read more

“I buried my negatives in the ground in order that there should be some record of our tragedy.” — Henryk Ross   On Tuesday November 20, 2018, Amanda Clem interviews Julia Dolan about the photography show Memory Unearthed: The Lodz Ghetto Photographs of Henryk Ross  at the... Read more

  Portland Art Museum offers an unprecedented opportunity to aficionados of Asian culture and history with an exhibit titled Poetic Imagination in Japanese Art, which opened in recent weeks. Curator Maribeth Graybill visits Art Focus and talks to Eric Bartels about the sho... Read more

On Tuesday October 30, 2018, Joseph Gallivan interviews  Bethlehem Daniel and Mia O’Connor-Smith of open mike night Deep Underground, who discuss Monuments, their show about Sun Ra and his Arkestra. They talk about the reproduction costumes and hand-drawn record sleeves in ... Read more

On Tuesday October 23, 2018, Joseph Gallivan interviews art critic Jeff Jahn [PRONOUNCED YARN] about his new essay Portlandageddon.  Jahn talks about the effect of new money and new blood on the city’s cultural scene, how the city council sees the arts through an affordable... Read more

  An offbeat collection of art designed to be poked, prodded and more has been delighting visitors to Paragon Arts Gallery in North Portland. Can Touch This co-curator Dominic Amorin is also one of the originators of Public Annex, a local collective of both disabled and no... Read more

Grocery, LeBrie Rich's series of life-size branded food products, such as Fritos, Ritz Crackers, and Reese’s, are lovingly felted and stitched with painstaking attention to detail. The almost irresistibly soft texture of wool felt and the many hours of labor clearly spent o... Read more