Art Focus

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Airs at: Tue, 04/23/2024 at 11:30am - 12:00pm
Art Focus
Hosted by: 
Joseph Gallivan
Produced by: 
KBOO
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A radio show about visual art. You get it.

 

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Every Second and Fourth Tuesday, from 11:30 AM to 12:00 PM.

Art Focus features interviews by host Joseph Gallivan with artists, curators and critics. Lively voices talking about art, how it's made and sometimes even what it means. Page back through KBOO's schedule to find all the recordings, some of which were made on magnetic tape.   

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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Arts/Culture
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Arts and Culture
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Between Two Points

Airs at: Tue, 06/06/2023 at 11:30am - 12:00pm
Produced for:  Art Focus
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On Tuesday, June 7, 2023, at 11.30am Joseph Gallivan interviews Sima Familant about the show ‘Between Two Points’ which is on now through October 15 at the Lobby at the Ellen Browning Building at 28th and Division Street. Familant spoke by Zoom from her home in Austin about... Read more

PSU Graduation shows

Airs at: Tue, 05/30/2023 at 11:00am - 11:45am
Produced for:  Art Focus
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On Tuesday, May 30, 2023, at 11.15am (note the early start) Joseph Gallivan interviews five artists and one professor about the work at Portland State University’s Masters and Bachelors of Fine Art program. At the show at the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art at PSU, Joseph ta... Read more

Mark Andres

Airs at: Tue, 05/23/2023 at 11:30am - 12:00pm
Produced for:  Art Focus
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On Tuesday, May 23, 2023, at 11.30am Joseph Gallivan interviews painter Mark Andres about his show “Saudade” [ pronounced sau-DA-ji ] which is on now at Augen Gallery through May 27. Andres talks about his use of shadow and silhouette, how he has partly changed his mind abo... Read more

Ellen George

Airs at: Tue, 05/16/2023 at 11:30am - 12:00pm
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On Tuesday, May 16, 2023, at 11.30am Joseph Gallivan interviews painter Ellen George about her show “Slow Gestures” which is at PDX Contemporary Art until May 27, 2023.  George talks about painting on birch plywood panels that warp off the wall, her use of precious metal st... Read more

Robin Friend

Airs at: Tue, 05/09/2023 at 11:30am - 12:00pm
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On Tuesday, May 9, 2023, at 11.30am Joseph Gallivan interviews photographer Robin Friend about his show “Bastard Countryside”, which is on now at Blue Sky Gallery through May 27.  Friend talks about hunting disused and overgrown industrial and military sites in his homeland... Read more

Rui Sasaki

Airs at: Tue, 04/25/2023 at 11:30am - 12:00pm
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On Tuesday, April 25, 2023, at 11.30am Joseph Gallivan interviews Carolyn Supinka, the head of exhibitions at Portland Japanese Garden. Supinka talks about glass artist Rui Sasaki’s new exhibit in the garden “Subtle Intimacy: Here and There” which is on now through June 12.... Read more

Hito Steyerl

Airs at: Tue, 04/18/2023 at 11:30am - 12:00pm
Produced for:  Art Focus
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My guest this week is Sara Krajewski [PRONOUNCED kra-JESS-ki], the Senior Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art at Portland Art Museum. Krajewski is talking about Hito Steyerl’s [PRONOUNCED HEE-to STY-rol] video installation called “This is the Future” which critiques arti... Read more

Bonnie Lucas

Airs at: Tue, 04/11/2023 at 11:30am - 12:00pm
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On Tuesday, April 11, 2023, at 11.30am Joseph Gallivan interviews curator Jeanine Jablonski about the show “Bonnie Lucas 1978-2023” which is at the ILY2 Gallery through May 29. Jablonski talks about how Lucas’s assemblages have changed over the decades, how the founding Gue... Read more

Jaleesa Johnston on Conductions Black Imaginings

Airs at: Tue, 03/21/2023 at 11:30am - 12:00pm
Produced for:  Art Focus
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On Tuesday, February 21, 2023, at 11.30am Joseph Gallivan interviews Jaleesa Johnston of the Portland Art Museum about the five-day show Conductions Black Imaginings, which shows the work of Black artists ariella tai, Ella Ray and Sharyll Burroughs. Runs March 22-26 in vari... Read more

Pour the Water as I Leave

Airs at: Tue, 03/07/2023 at 11:30am - 12:00pm
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On Tuesday, March 7, 2023, at 11.30am Joseph Gallivan interviews filmmakers Daniela Repas and Simone Fischer about the work-in-progress animated documentary “Pour the Water as I Leave”. It is the story of seven Bosnian refugees who left during the Bosnian war 25 years ago a... Read more