Art Focus

Art Focus features interviews with artists, curators, gallerists, writers and other art people. 

On Tuesday May 21, 2013, Joseph Gallivan will interview Sarah Margolis-Pineo, Associate Curator at Museum of Contemporary Craft, about the exhibition Object Focus: The Bowl.

The show looks at the humble bowl in the context of Art, craft and everyday life.

On May 14th Eva Lake interviewed Sandy Roumagoux, who is showing at Blackfish.

On April 23rd Joseph Gallivan will interview Terri Hopkins about two shows on incarceration that she has curated at the Art Gym. 

On April 16 Brian Ferriso, Director of the Portland Art Museum, was Eva Lake's guest.

Philip Iosca was Eva Lake's guest for the April 2, 2013 episode of Art Focus. He had a show at Fourteen30 Contemporary.

Rita Robillard was our guest on February 26th. She had a show at Augen Gallery this month.

Michelle Ross was Eva Lake's guest on February 12th. She showed at the Museum of Contemporary Craft.

On Tuesday Feb 5, Joseph Gallivan interviewed Julia Dolan about photographer Carrie Mae Weems. The retrospective exhibition, "Carrie Mae Weems: Three Decades of Photography and Video" runs at the Portland Art Museum February 2 – May 19, 2013. Julia Dolan is the museum's Minor White Curator of Photography

 

On January 29th Eva Lake interviewed Kerry Tymchuk, Executive Director of the Oregon Historical Society. They talked about events and exhibitions happening for Black History Month.

On Tuesday January 22 at 11.30am Joseph Gallivan interviewed Mariana Tres, curator of the Society for Nebulous Knowledge, about the show "Celestial Clockwork." In her show at Chambers@916 Gallery, Tres presents the artefacts of 19th Century Astoria clockmaker and astronomer Herschel McShougle.

Check below for audiofiles and information on all our past guests.

 

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Art Focus on 10/04/11

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Tue, 10/04/2011 - 11:30am - 12:00pm
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Jim Lommasson on "What We Carried: Fragments from the Cradle of Civilization" at Launchpad Gallery

Guest host Wendy Webb interviews photographer Jim Lommasson about the show What We Carried at Launchpad Gallery. The show is a collaborative project conceived by Jim Lommasson and Oregon Iraqi Refugees. The exhibit will include photographs and writing and paintings by Farooq Hassan and Samir Khurshid.

Here are links/info about the show:

What We Carried
Fragments from the Cradle of Civilization
October 7th - 29th, 2011

http://launchpadgallery.org/category/exhibits/

http://lommasson.blogspot.com/

http://theoregoniraqirefugeeproject.blogspot.com/

Art Focus on 09/27/11

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Tue, 09/27/2011 - 11:30am - 12:00pm
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David Eckard

Our guest on Art Focus will be David Eckard. The Art Gym is giving him a mid-career retrospective which opens on October 2nd. David Eckard: Deployment will present approximately 40 artworks, including new paintings, sculpture and performances, and a selection of past sculptures, drawings and documentation. It will also include documentation and physical remnants of past installations and performances.

Art Focus on 09/20/11

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Tue, 09/20/2011 - 11:30am - 12:00pm
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Grace Weston

Currently Augen Gallery is showing Grace Weston's Angles of Incidents. Weston will be our guest this week Tuesday on Art Focus.

Art Focus on 09/13/11

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Tue, 09/13/2011 - 11:30am - 12:15pm
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Whoop Dee Doo of the PICA TBA Festival

Whoop Dee Doo is a part of the PICA TBA 2011 Festival. They will be our guests on Art Focus this Tuesday.

Art Focus on 09/06/11

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Tue, 09/06/2011 - 11:30am - 12:00pm
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Curator Kristan Kennedy on PICA's TBA Festival

PICA's TBA Festival is coming up and Art Focus will devote 2 episodes to it. This week our guest will be Kristan Kennedy, PICA's Visual Art Curator (who is also an artist). The PICA Resource Room online will give you all the details about the festival.

Art Focus on 08/30/11

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Tue, 08/30/2011 - 11:30am - 12:00pm
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Tiffany Lee Brown and Joshua Berger

Joshua Berger and Tiffany Lee Brown of Plazm will be our guests on Art Focus this week. Plazm celebrates 20 years in print this year. Plazm, an annual publication of art, design, literary and cultural works is based in Portland.

Art Focus on 08/23/11

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Tue, 08/23/2011 - 11:30am - 12:00pm
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Artists from Recology Program

There is a Recology Program where artists go to the dump and make work from it. Some of them will join us on Art Focus. The artists involved are: Ben Dye, Jen Fuller, William Rihel, Mike Suri, and Leslie Vigeant.

Art Focus on 08/16/11

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Tue, 08/16/2011 - 11:30am - 12:00pm
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Lynda Ater

Lynda Ater is our guest on Art Focus. She has a show called Inside Out up at Blackfish this month which riffs on Albers and his Hommage to the Square. Ater has embellished the square with cancer cell shapes, something she's very familiar with via a long profession in laboratory medicine.

Art Focus on 08/09/11

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Tue, 08/09/2011 - 11:30am - 12:00pm
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Conceptual Oregon Performance School

Four artists here in Portland are offering classes for the summer - C.O.P.S - Conceptual Oregon Performance School. From the statement:

The Conceptual Oregon Performance School (C.O.P.S.) is a free, artist-run, experimental summer school, with a focus on contemporary performance strategies. Its mandate is to engage participants in the methodologies, critical theory, and dialogue surrounding the discipline, while investigating its social and cultural role. Participants will experiment with a myriad of contemporary performance strategies, based upon formal and informal lectures, seminar-based dialogue, and structured group critique.

Art Focus on 08/02/11

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Tue, 08/02/2011 - 11:30am - 12:00pm
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Lisa Radon

Lisa Radon is our guest, curating Reading.Writing. at galleryHOMELAND at the Ford Building. 18 artists from all over the world are included in this exhibition.

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Paul Middendorf and Caitlin Moore of galleryHomeland

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Mon, 08/03/2009

Paul Middendorf and Caitlin Moore joined us at KBOO to talk about galleryHomeland, an arts nonprofit here in Portland. Homeland has a great residency program, invites guest curators and is now planning a show of Portland artists in Berlin.

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Pammela Springfield

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Mon, 07/27/2009

Pammela Springfield has Cannibals, a gallery/shop on NW 21st which features arts and crafts made of recycled materials.

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Eunice Parsons on Collage

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Mon, 07/20/2009

Eunice Parsons is a master collage artist. She has several shows this year including a small retrospective at the Hallie Ford Museum in Salem. Her manager and the director of 12 x 16 Gallery Cary Doucette was also with us at KBOO.

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Alicia McDaid with Anthony Allen

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Mon, 07/13/2009

 

Alicia McDaid guest hosted on Art Focus this past week with an interview with Anthony Allen of the Paula Cooper Gallery in NYC about Sophie Calle.
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Michael Kenna Interview

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Sun, 07/05/2009

Michael Kenna joined us at KBOO while he was in town for the opening of his exhibition at Charles A. Hartman Fine Art. He talked about photographing his travels, how he learned to print and why he lives in the Pacific Northwest.

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Michael Brophy

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Mon, 06/29/2009

Michael Brophy talks about his new show "Silence" at the Laura Russo Gallery. The show has big canvases of landscapes in Eastern Oregon and small goauches made right after his studio and home went through a big fire.

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"Parallel Worlds" at the Japanese Garden

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Mon, 06/22/2009

Diane Durston of the Japanese Garden talks about the current exhibition Parallel Worlds, which explores and compares textles from Japan and the Pacific Northwest. Above you see a blanket from the Pacific Northwest. Diane Durston is the curator for this great exhibition.

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Arvie Smith

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Mon, 06/15/2009

Arvie Smith visited KBOO and told us about his current show at Beppu Wiarda. Smith's paintings use intense colors and often complex compositions to tell stories out of his family and his own life.

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Eric Vines of Sitka Center for Art + Ecology

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Mon, 06/08/2009

Eric Vines joined us on Art Focus – he’s the Executive Director for the Sitka Center for Art and Ecology.  Sitka hosts residency programs and many art, music and nature workshops.

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John Brodie talks about his Store for a Month

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Mon, 06/01/2009

John Brodie organized Store for a Month, which opens June 3rd. Brodie takes his concept from Claes Oldenburg’s “Store” of 1961, inviting artists to make works on the spot and sell them too. One of the works offered is the piece above, Cloud Painting 1 by Arcy Douglass. Over 60 artists are participating. John Brodie will joined us on KBOO and told us all about the store.

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