Art Focus

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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

Ryan Pierce

Airs at: Tue, 10/20/2009 at 11:30am - 12:00pm
Produced for:  Art Focus
  Ryan Pierce has an exhibition called Written from Exile at the Elizabeth Leach Gallery. The show comprises acrylic paintings which explore a post-industrial world. He is our guest today.   Read more

Portland 2010 + the Oregon Cultural Trust

Airs at: Tue, 10/06/2009 at 11:30am - 12:00pm
Produced for:  Art Focus
The Oregon Cultural Trust has given a grant to Disjecta to produce the (now rather homeless) Oregon Biennial. It will be called Portland 2010. I had Cynthia Kirk from the Trust, Bryan Suereth from Disjecta and Cris Moss the curator as my guests on Art Focus at KBOO. Kirk al... Read more

Tom Cramer

Airs at: Tue, 09/29/2009 at 11:30am - 12:00pm
Produced for:  Art Focus
Tom Cramer has a new show opening at Laura Russo this week. He will be my guest tomorrow on Art Focus. His exhibitions keep pushing forward into new territory and this one in particular has a big variety of approaches. Some seems Byzantine; his silver and gold is better tha... Read more

Mark Menjivar

Airs at: Tue, 09/22/2009 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Art Focus
Mark Menjivar has a show opening on the 23rd at Ampersand Vintage. The show is called You are What You Eat. The photographs examine the interiors of refrigerators of homes across the country. Mark is a part of the slow food movement. Read more

Art Focus

Airs at: Tue, 09/15/2009 at 11:30am - 12:00pm
Produced for:  Art Focus
Pat Boas opens a show at the Maryhurst Art Gym this week. The artist makes work that explores and examines language in context—letter by letter, word by word, image by image. Record Record includes four series that comment in very quiet ways on the text and images in The Ne... Read more

Woolly Mammoth Comes to Dinner and the Oregon Painting Society

Airs at: Tue, 09/08/2009 at 11:30am - 12:00pm
Produced for:  Art Focus
For PICA's TBA festival we have an interview with Woolly Mammoth Comes to Dinner and the Oregon Painting Society on. Guests include: Woolly Mammoth--Rikki Rothenberg and Kathleen Keogh and Oregon Painting Society--Matt Carlson, Jason Traeger and Liam Drain. Read more

Art Focus

Airs at: Tue, 09/01/2009 at 11:30am - 12:00pm
Produced for:  Art Focus
Sean Ongley takes over this week's episode of Art Focus to bring us a special program about PICA's TBA 2009 festival. Read more

The Works 2009

Airs at: Tue, 09/01/2009 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Art Focus
Here is an interview with two artists: Fawn Krieger and Jesse Hayward, recorded during the construction of their respective installations at Time Based Arts Festival site for "The Works". For TBA '09, PICA (Portland Institute for Contemporary Arts) gained access to the defu... Read more

Interview with the Curators of Time Based Arts 2009

Airs at: Tue, 09/01/2009 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Art Focus
Two days before the big opening reception for Time Based Arts Festival 2009, the "big three" curators of TBA joined guest host of Art Focus, Sean Ongley, for a special program discussing the event. Erin Boberg and Kristan Kennedy were live in the studio, while guest artisti... Read more

Art Focus

Airs at: Tue, 08/25/2009 at 11:30am - 12:00pm
Produced for:  Art Focus
  Listen to the interview here. Gavin Shettler is the director at Milepost Five. He’s now a wiser, maybe more pragmatic director of dreams than his previous incarnation at the Portland Art Center.  Read more