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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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Victor Maldonado

Airs at: Tue, 04/20/2010 at 11:30am - 12:00pm
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Victor Maldonado has a beautiful exhibition up at Froelick, all green paintings. This installation is comprised of panels in size of all the TV screens he has ever lived with. Maldonado addresses cross cultural identity and traffic via the monochrome. Read more

Richard Speer, art critic, essayist, novelist and biographer of "Matt Lamb: The Art of Success"

Airs at: Tue, 04/13/2010 at 11:30am - 12:00pm
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  Guest-host Tom Cramer speaks with Richard Speer, art writer at the Willamette Week. Richard Speer is the author of the biography Matt Lamb: The Art of Success (John Wiley & Sons), short fiction, and a forthcoming novel.   Richard's articles, essays, and reviews have app... Read more

Rick Scott: hand-crafted signs and logos

Airs at: Fri, 04/09/2010 at 11:30am - 12:00pm
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Guest host Tom Cramer interviews Rick Scott, who specializes in hand-crafting signs and logos for the Portland Oregon area. He is knowledgable about mural and car painting techniques and is an expert handmade sign painter. Signs are one of our most ubiquitous art forms. CD... Read more

Art Focus on 04/06/10

Airs at: Tue, 04/06/2010 at 11:30am - 12:00pm
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Guest host Tom Cramer interviews Rick Scott, who specializes in hand-crafting signs and logos for the Portland Oregon area. He is knowledgable about mural and car painting techniques and is an expert handmade sign painter. Signs are one of our most ubiquitous art forms. Read more

James Lavadour

Airs at: Tue, 03/30/2010 at 11:30am - 12:00pm
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In April PDX Contemporary Art presents Geographies of the Same Stone: for TT by the painter James Lavadour. Here Lavadour talks about his process in painting. Read more

Cris Moss, curator of Portland 2010 Biennial

Airs at: Tue, 03/23/2010 at 11:30am - 12:00pm
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For contemporary art fans in this town, the last two weekends have been filled with the Portland 2010 Biennial. Disjecta is producing this secession of art events with help from a grant from the Oregon Cultural Trust. Art Focus on KBOO already broke the initial story of how... Read more

Timothy Scott Dalbow

Airs at: Tue, 03/16/2010 at 11:30am - 12:00pm
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Timothy Scott Dalbow has an interesting show up at the New American Art Union called “I Don’t Know Anyone in Paris.” The artist moved into the space, using it as his studio, painting mostly at night. On the opening night, there was only a big white, bare canvas, a couple of... Read more

proof : women : art : science exhibition

Airs at: Tue, 03/09/2010 at 11:30am - 12:00pm
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  This week's broadcast is around the exhibition Proof: Art : Women : Science at Beppu Wiarda . My guests include the curator Lorna Nakell, the art historian Elizabeth Bilyeu and gallerist Gail Beppu. Throughout this month the gallery is presenting discussions every Sunday... Read more

Bruce Guenther on "Disquieted"

Airs at: Tue, 03/02/2010 at 11:30am - 12:00pm
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The guest is Bruce Guenther, curator of modern and contemporary art at the Portland Art Museum. Bruce Guenther curated the current exhibition, DISQUIETED, which shows through May 16th. Artists have always reflected and reacted to the world around them—and contemporary art, ... Read more

Signs of Change and Gestures of Resistance

Airs at: Tue, 02/23/2010 at 11:30am - 12:00pm
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Art Focus presents a look at two current exhibitions in Portland dealing with protest and social change, Signs of Change: Social Movement Cultures 1960s to Now at PNCA and Gestures of Resistance at the Museum of Contemporary Craft. The guests are Namita Wiggers, Curator at ... Read more