Art Focus

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Airs at: Tue, 02/11/2025 at 11:30am - 12:00pm
Airs at: Tue, 02/25/2025 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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Topic tags: 
Arts/Culture
Genre(s): 
Arts and Culture
Streams: 
KBOO Stream 1
Program status: 
Current

ILY2

Airs at: Tue, 11/21/2023 at 11:30am - 12:00pm
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On Tuesday Nov. 21, at 11.30 a.m. Joseph Gallivan interviews gallerist Jeanine Jablonski about the new show I am a City of Bones at ILY2 Gallery on now through Jan. 13, 2024. Jablonski talks about several different artists’ work, her freedom to curate the show, and the way... Read more

James Lavadour

Airs at: Tue, 11/14/2023 at 11:30am - 12:00pm
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On Tuesday, Nov. 14, at 11.30 a.m. Joseph Gallivan interviews gallerist Jane Beebe about painter James Lavadour’s new show Planet Waves which is on now at PDX Contemporary Art through Nov. 28. Beebe talks about Lavadour’s use of color, the role of landscape in his abstract ... Read more

Heather Watkins

Airs at: Tue, 11/07/2023 at 11:30am - 12:00pm
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On Tuesday, Nov. 7, at 11.30 a.m. Joseph Gallivan interviews artist Heather Watkins about her show Elemental Things which is on now at PDX Contemporary Art through Nov. 28. Watkins talks about turning line drawings into sculptures, her method of pouring ink on paper then cu... Read more

Philip Krohn High Water

Airs at: Tue, 10/31/2023 at 11:30am - 12:00pm
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photo credit, courtesy of AUXART   On Tuesday, Oct. 31, at 11.30 a.m. Joseph Gallivan interviews artist Philip Krohn about the installation called High Water which is in Building 5, 2516 NW 29th Ave, Portland, on weekends through November 12. High Water is made from salva... Read more

We Are The Revolution

Airs at: Tue, 10/03/2023 at 11:30am - 12:00pm
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On Tuesday, Oct. 3, at 11.30 a.m. Joseph Gallivan interviews art collector Jordan Schnitzer about the show We Are The Revolution, which is on now through December 1, at The Schnitzer Collection at 3033 N.W. Yeon Ave. Schnitzer talks about works from big names such as Kehind... Read more

Comic Con 2023

Airs at: Tue, 09/26/2023 at 11:30am - 12:00pm
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On Tuesday, Sept. 26, at 11.30am Joseph Gallivan interviews three comic book artists at Rose City Comic Con. He talks to Nicola Scott from Australia who does Wonder Woman and other comics for DC; Jack Kent who draws interesting-looking people on the street in Portland for t... Read more

Hung Liu

Airs at: Tue, 09/19/2023 at 11:30am - 12:00pm
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On Tuesday, Sept. 19, 2023, at 11.30 a.m. Joseph Gallivan interviews Derek Franklin about “A Question of Hu: The Narrative Art of Hung Liu” [PRONOUNCED LEE-oo]. The show is on now through December 2, 2023.  Franklin talks about Liu’s textural paintings, her use of symbolism... Read more

Naomi Shigeta

Airs at: Tue, 09/12/2023 at 11:30am - 12:00pm
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On Tuesday, Sept. 12, 2023, at 11.30 a.m. Joseph Gallivan interviews painter Naomi Shigeta [PRONOUNCED SHIG-ett-AR] about her new show “Correlate” at Augen Gallery which is on now through Sept 30. Shigeta talks about her oil painting technique when it comes to backgrounds ... Read more

Land Art Terra Incognita

Airs at: Tue, 08/22/2023 at 11:30am - 12:00pm
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[NEW LAPTOP, PIX GONE SIDEWAYS, SORRY. LOOK AT LIFE DIFFERENTLY] On Tuesday, August 22, 2023, at 11.30 am Joseph Gallivan interviews multiple artists about Terra Incognita, a land art show at the Verdency Project in Troutdale through Sunday, August 27. On a preview tour of ... Read more

Converge 45

Airs at: Tue, 08/15/2023 at 11:30am - 12:00pm
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On Tuesday, Aug 15, 2023, at 11.30am Joseph Gallivan interviews curator Christian Viveros-Fauné and artistic director Portland artist Derek Franklin about Converge 45, a city wide arts festival staring August 24. Will art save Portland? The pair talk about the idea of a bie... Read more