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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Good Will Hunting: Trash or the Stuff Movies Are Made of?

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Wed, 07/23/2008

Host Julie Bernard speaks with artists Rachel Hibberd, Cara Tomlinson, and Sean Regan about their project "Good Will Hunting: Trash or the Stuff Movies Are Made of?"

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Julie Bernard speaks with Phyllis Cantrell Reynolds, The Tree Woman

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Wed, 07/16/2008

Julie Bernard speaks with Phyllis Cantrell Reynolds, The Tree Woman. There's nothing she doesn't know about trees.

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Art "Kinda Like a Buffet"

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Wed, 07/02/2008

Host Julie Bernard speaks with Jane Beebe, of the PDX Gallery, about the current exhibit there called "Kinda Like a Buffet." It's a group show featuring a variety of artists including two who are also guests on the show, Molly Vidor and Midori Hirose.  

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Jennifer Gately: Contemporary NW Artists Awards

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Wed, 06/25/2008

Host Julie Bernard speaks with Jennifer Gately, Curator of Northwest Art at the Portland Art Museum, about the Contemporary Northwest Artists Awards, which replaced the Oregon Biennial this year. 

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TJ Norris: Mirages, Dreams, Parallel Universes

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Wed, 06/18/2008

Host Julie Bernard interviews artist TJ Norris on his work and his current exhibition at the New American Art Union.  

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06-12-08 Art Focus

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Wed, 06/11/2008

Julie Bernard speaks with Alexa Pengelly and Bob LePore about online art auction.

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Caldera Art for Youth Program

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Wed, 06/04/2008

Host Julie Bernard speaks with staff and youth from Caldera, a non-profit arts organization which offers deep arts learning experiences for underserved youth in Portland and Central Oregon. Participants include Kristin Kilchenstein, education director; Majik, in-school mentor; and photographer Julie Keefe who works with the youth who interview  and photograph diverse people in their neighborhoods.

 


 

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Glass Arts Conference

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Wed, 05/28/2008

Host Julie Bernard interviews Mel George of Studio Ramp about the Glass Arts Society's 38th
Annual Conference taking place here in Portland June 19th - 21st.

 

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Ceramic Showcase, Oregon Potters

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Wed, 04/16/2008

Host Julie Bernard spoke with Stephanie Burton, James DeRosso and Brad Menninga of the Oregon Potters Association about the Ceramic Showcase, which is being held April 25th through the 27th at the Convention Center.

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Artists Remedios Rapoport and Jacquelyn Bond

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Wed, 03/05/2008

Host Julie Bernard interviewed local artists Remedios Rapoport and Jacquelyn Bond about  Women’s Art: Women’s Vision at the Interstate Firehouse Cultural Center.  Celebrating the theme of 2008’s National Women’s History Month Remedios Rapoport takes the traditional Argentinean art of Filete (elaborate sign painting) and puts a contemporary message for empowerment and action into each piece. She will present her work, act as guest curator and mentor an emerging artist also working with women and political empowerment. Jacquelyn Bond is a young artist who paints water color illustrations and creates beautiful political pin ups.

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