Art Focus

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Airs at: Tue, 06/10/2025 at 11:30am - 12:00pm

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Joseph Gallivan

Produced by:

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A radio show about visual art. You get it.

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

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KBOO Stream 1

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Current

Diego Diaz

Airs at: Tue, 03/22/2022 at 11:30am - 12:00pm

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On Tuesday March 22, 2022, Joseph Gallivan interviews photographer Diago Diaz about his commercial photography and his photojournalism. Diaz talks about his show of vineyard photography on now at Syndicate in Beaverton, about how it felt shooting Argentine soccer player ... Read more

Art Focus on 03/15/22

Airs at: Tue, 03/15/2022 at 11:30am - 12:00pm

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Jess T. Dugan

Airs at: Tue, 03/08/2022 at 11:30am - 12:00pm

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On Tuesday March 8, 2022, Joseph Gallivan interviews photographer Jess T. Dugan about their show To Survive on This Shore: Photographs and Interviews with Transgender and Gender Nonconforming Older Adults. This photo exhibition is at Portland State University through Apr... Read more

Sarah-Kate Nomura on Netsuke carvings

Airs at: Tue, 03/01/2022 at 11:30am - 12:00pm

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On Tuesday March 1, 2022, Joseph Gallivan interviews Sarah-Kate Nomura about Fashion and Fantasy: The Art of Netsuke [PRONOUNCED NET-scay] Carvings, which is on now at Portland Japanese Garden through April 17. Netsuke were toggles which were for holding a purse or pouch... Read more

Aurora Josephson adds to the interview with her late father Gregory Grenon

Airs at: Tue, 02/22/2022 at 11:30am - 12:00pm

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We rebroadcast and update Aurora Josephson's interview with her father the artist Gregory Grenon from October 2021, in light of his recent passing. There will be a memorial exhibition of his life’s work this April at the Schnitzer Museum on Yeon. Jordan Schnitzer Family F... Read more

Frida Kahlo, Diego Rivera, and Mexican Modernism

Airs at: Tue, 02/15/2022 at 11:30am - 12:00pm

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On Tuesday February 1, 2022, Joseph Gallivan interviews Sara Krajewski,[ PRONOUNCED krah-JESS-kee] the curator of Modern and Contemporary Art at the Portland Art Museum, about the show “Frida Kahlo, Diego Rivera and Mexican Modernism” which runs February 19 to June 5. Kr... Read more

Black Lives Matter Artist Grant Exhibition

Airs at: Tue, 02/08/2022 at 11:30am - 12:00pm

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On Tuesday February 8, 2022, Joseph Gallivan interviews Maryanna Ramirez and Edmund Holmes about Black Lives Matter Artist Grant Exhibition, which is on now through April 30 at Portland State University. Gallery Director Remirez and artist and Nike designer Holmes talk a... Read more

Noel Taylor

Airs at: Tue, 02/01/2022 at 11:30am - 12:00pm

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On Tuesday February 1, 2022, Joseph Gallivan interviews visionary painter Noel Taylor. Taylor talks about using the mische technique to make oil paintings that feel backlit, how his abstract forms come to him in a meditative state and how he stops his ego from taking ove... Read more

KHEM

Airs at: Tue, 01/25/2022 at 11:30am - 12:00pm

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On Tuesday January 25, 2022, Joseph Gallivan interviews artist KHEM, about his show Smiles of Planet Earth in Portland, Oregon. KHEM paints simple black curves on white paper, arranged in patterns whose meaning he decodes after he has completed the work. KHEM has travell... Read more

Julie Rall

Airs at: Tue, 01/18/2022 at 11:30am - 12:00pm

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On Tuesday January 18, 2022, Joseph Gallivan interviews artist Julie Rall about her installation “A Soft Landing” which is up now through January 30, 2022. Rall talks about how a parachute and a labyrinth made of salt can symbolize her feelings about how COVID and global... Read more

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