Art Focus

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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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Art of the Nabis

Airs at: Tue, 12/21/2021 at 11:30am - 12:00pm
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On Tuesday December 21, 2021, Joseph Gallivan interviews Mary Weaver Chapin [pronounced CHAY-pen], the curator of prints and drawings at the Portland Art Museum, about Private Lives and the Nabis. Chapin discusses this show of private and domestic scenes by four French pain... Read more

Jason Hill

Airs at: Tue, 12/14/2021 at 11:30am - 12:00pm
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On Tuesday, December 14, 2021, Joseph Gallivan interviews photographer Jason Hill, DJ Ambush and curator Tyra Levato about Jason’s show In My Skin, which is on now through February 27, 2022, at the Portland Art Museum’s AUX/MUTE gallery. They talk about Jason’s use of strob... Read more

cartoonist Shannon Wheeler

Airs at: Tue, 12/07/2021 at 11:30am - 12:00pm
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On Tuesday December 7, 2021, Joseph Gallivan interviews cartoonist Shannon Wheeler about Forbidden Love, his show of cartoons submitted to the New Yorker magazine. Wheeler talks about the single panel gag joke, the value of waking up at night to jot down a joke, what it’s l... Read more

Noah Matteucci and gallerist Jamie Wilson

Airs at: Tue, 11/30/2021 at 11:30am - 12:00pm
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On Tuesday November 30, 2021, at 11.30 AM, Joseph Gallivan interviews artist Noah Matteucci and gallerist Jamie Wilson about Matteucci’s show “Random 8” at Agenda Gallery in Southeast Portland.  Matteucci has filled covered the walls with thousands of colored squares of pap... Read more

Gallery GoGo

Airs at: Tue, 11/23/2021 at 11:30am - 12:00pm
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On Tuesday, November 23, 2021, Joseph Gallivan interviews Azure Attoe about her space Gallery GoGo which is on the second floor of Pioneer Place Mall in downtown Portland. Azure talks about making prints of the work of local artists, her fabulous art vending machine, and tu... Read more

Carl Bower

Airs at: Tue, 11/16/2021 at 11:30am - 12:00pm
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On Tuesday, November 16, 2021, Joseph Gallivan interviews photographer Carl Bower. His show of portraits Private Fears runs now at Blue Sky Gallery until Nov. 27, 2021. Bower talks about finding his subjects, how he talks to them about their deep, specific fears, and how he... Read more

Art Focus on 11/09/21

Airs at: Tue, 11/09/2021 at 11:30am - 12:00pm
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Beyond Van Gogh: The Immersive Experience

Airs at: Tue, 11/02/2021 at 11:30am - 12:00pm
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On Tuesday November 2, 2021, Joseph Gallivan interviews Fanny Curtat about “Beyond Van Gogh: The Immersive Experience,” which opens at the Oregon Convention Center on November 19. “Beyond Van Gogh” leads viewers through giant projections and animations of Vincent Van Gogh’s... Read more

Gregory Grenon

Airs at: Tue, 10/26/2021 at 11:30am - 12:00pm
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 Aurora Josephson Interviews Gregory Grenon about his personal revolution and moving out west in 1976, working at Landfall Press and teaching himself how to paint on reverse glass, in the first episode of the Outsider’s Corner on Art Focus.  Read more

Costume Director for Portland Opera

Airs at: Tue, 10/19/2021 at 11:30am - 12:00pm
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On Tuesday Oct 19, 2021, at 11:30 a.m. Joseph Gallivan interviews Christine A. Richardson, the Costume Director for Portland Opera. Richardson talks about designing and sewing the costumes for Puccini’s opera “Tosca” which opens on October 29, 2021 and plays for three perfo... Read more