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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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Lincoln High School Mural

Airs at: Tue, 01/23/2024 at 11:30am - 12:00pm
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On Tuesday, Jan. 23, at 11.30 a.m. Joseph Gallivan interviews artists Shu-Ju Wang and Lynn Yarne about the new mural at Lincoln High School called Restoration Roadmaps. They talk about how they used historical documents to come up with the design of animals and plants surro... Read more

Chris Chandler

Airs at: Tue, 01/16/2024 at 11:30am - 12:00pm
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On Tuesday, Jan. 16, 2024, at 11.30 a.m. Joseph Gallivan interviews artist Chris Chandler about his show Elemental Forms, which is on now at Elizabeth Leach Gallery through March 2. Chandler talks about his use of typeface as a starting point in abstraction, his analog vers... Read more

Hannah Theiss

Airs at: Tue, 01/09/2024 at 11:30am - 12:00pm
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On Tuesday, Jan 9, 2024, at 11.30 a.m. Joseph Gallivan interviews Hannah Theiss (PRONOUNCED TICE) about her show Aphelion, which is on now through Jan 27 at Blackfish Gallery. Theiss talks about moving from her day job in graphic design through printing making to large scal... Read more

Black Artists of Oregon - rerun

Airs at: Tue, 01/02/2024 at 11:30am - 12:00pm
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WARNING: RERUN EPISODE On Tuesday Jan. 02, 2024, at 11.30 a.m. Joseph Gallivan interviews curator Intisar Abioto about the show called Black Artists of Oregon, which is on now at the Portland Art Museum through March 17, 2024. Abioto https://www.intisarabioto.com/  talks a... Read more

Rick Bartow drawings and prints

Airs at: Tue, 12/26/2023 at 11:30am - 12:00pm
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On Tuesday Dec. 26, 2023, at 11.30 a.m. Joseph Gallivan interviews  gallery owner Charles Froelick  about “What the Crow Knows” a show of Rick Bartow prints and drawings which is on now though January 27, 2024. Froelick talks about Bartow’s concept of the trickster crow, hi... Read more

Intisar Abioto

Airs at: Tue, 12/19/2023 at 11:30am - 12:00pm
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On Tuesday Dec 19, at 11.30 a.m. Joseph Gallivan interviews curator Intisar Abioto about the show called Black Artists of Oregon, which is on now at the Portland Art Museum through March 17, 2024. Abioto https://www.intisarabioto.com/  talks about six of the artist whose 2... Read more

Portland Arts Collective

Airs at: Tue, 12/12/2023 at 11:30am - 12:00pm
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On Tuesday Dec 12, 2023, at 11.30 a.m. Joseph Gallivan interviews Aurora Josephson at the new downtown gallery Portland Arts Collective. Josephson talks about several artists’ work in the show called Women’s Work. Many of them are mature, female artists who have been on the... Read more

Helen Frankenthaler

Airs at: Tue, 12/05/2023 at 11:30am - 12:00pm
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On Tuesday Dec. 5, 2023, at 11.30 a.m. Joseph Gallivan interviews curator Bruce Guenther about Helen Frankenthaler, a show of her prints which is on now at the Oregon Jewish Museum through March 23, 2024. Guenther talks about the famous painter’s approach to printing, her u... Read more

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