Art Focus

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Art Focus
Hosted by: 
Joseph Gallivan
Produced by: 
KBOO
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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

Jim Archer

Airs at: Wed, 02/25/2009 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Art Focus
Jim Archer is known as a curator who worked for years at the Archer Gallery at Clark College. He is also known for his collage work. Now, however, he is showing these great paintings, small portraits of faces at the Life Gallery at the Everett Station Lofts. Read more

Art Focus

Airs at: Thu, 02/19/2009 at 10:30am - 11:00am
Produced for:  Art Focus
 Listen to the interview. Art Focus will interview Leslie Miller, co-founder of Fontanelle, along with Mark Warren Jacques, the artist currently showing at the gallery. Jacques presents Big Beautiful Color (example above), an exhibition featuring interactive installation, p... Read more

Leslie Miller + Marck Warren Jacques

Airs at: Wed, 02/18/2009 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Art Focus
Art Focus interviewed Leslie Miller, co-founder of Fontanelle, along with Mark Warren Jacques, the artist currently showing at the gallery. Jacques presents Big Beautiful Color (example at left), an exhibition featuring interactive installation, painting, and sculpture. Read more

Art Focus

Airs at: Thu, 02/12/2009 at 10:30am - 11:00am
Produced for:  Art Focus
  Listen to the interview! Patrick Rock is an artist and also the curator of Rocksbox. He also works with the MK Gallery and the Autzen Gallery at PSU. Read more

Patrick Rock

Airs at: Wed, 02/11/2009 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Art Focus
  Patrick Rock is an artist who curates several spaces in town.  He tells us about the founding and programming of Rockbox, an alternative artist-run space located on Interstate which has a visiting artist-in-residence program. We discuss the upcoming exhibition at Rockbox ... Read more

Art Focus

Airs at: Thu, 02/05/2009 at 10:30am - 11:00am
Produced for:  Art Focus
   Listen to the audio file here. Jesse Durost will discuss the making and installation of his exhibition at Fourteen30 in SE Portland. The exhibition opened January 23rd. Durost's Fabrications explore his "own vocabulary of architectural forms." More information at Fourtee... Read more

Jesse Durost at Fourteen30

Airs at: Wed, 02/04/2009 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Art Focus
For his current show at Fourteen30, Jesse Durost combined simple architectural forms with layers and transparency, resulting in sculptural works of both logic and fantasy. The artist talks about the current work and how his past exhibitions tie into it. More images are also... Read more

Art Focus

Airs at: Thu, 01/22/2009 at 10:30am - 11:00am
Produced for:  Art Focus
Host Eva Lake interviews Mandy Greer and Darrel Morris, two artists currently showing at the Museum of Contemporary Craft. Mandy Greer is exhibiting an installation of crochet, braiding, sewing and beading using yarn, beads, shells, feathers and more.  Darrel Morris pres... Read more

Mandy Greer and Darrel Morris at the Museum of Contemporary Craft

Airs at: Wed, 01/21/2009 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Art Focus
This is an interview with the two artists and the curators of this exhibition, Stefano Catalani and Namita Gupta Wiggers. For more information, see the museum's website. Through countless small gestures of her craft, Mandy Greer employs humble handicraft processes and mater... Read more

Art Focus

Airs at: Thu, 01/15/2009 at 10:30am - 11:00am
Produced for:  Art Focus
Eva Lake will talk with Cary Doucette, who is a member of the 12x16 gallery in Sellwood and is currently showing work there. He is showing alongside Jerry Walker, who was a Portland Pop Pioneer, adopting the 1960s & 70s NYC Minimalist edge. Although he exhibited in the P... Read more