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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David Eckard
Our guest on Art Focus was David Eckard. The Art Gym is giving him a mid-career survey 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.
- Title: David Eckard
- Genre: Unknown
- Length: 29:57 minutes (41.13 MB)
- Format: MP3 Stereo 44kHz 192Kbps (CBR)
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Grace Weston
Currently Augen Gallery is showing Grace Weston's Angles of Incidents. Weston was our guest on Art Focus. We were fortunate enough to visit her studio once. She's making magic from a very small set with all kinds of wild parts.
- Title: Grace Weston
- Genre: Unknown
- Length: 30:45 minutes (42.23 MB)
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Whoop Dee Doo
Whoop Dee Doo are a part of the PICA TBA 2011 Festival. They were our guests on Art Focus September 13th.
About the group: An all-ages, anything-goes variety show, Whoop Dee Doo enlists diverse participants and collaborates with a wild range of performers—from science teachers and Celtic bagpipers to clogging troupes, drill teams, and drag queens—all for an audience of wide-eyed children. This chaotic mix is an awkward yet endearing experience that embraces a huge range of tastes and sensibilities and strips away divisions between high and low art. While curated by the group, Whoop Dee Doo remains a truly inclusive endeavor that celebrates difference and unabashed self-expression.
- Title: Whoop Dee Doo
- Genre: Unknown
- Length: 29:37 minutes (40.68 MB)
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Kristan Kennedy of PICA's TBA Festival
PICA's TBA Festival is coming up and Art Focus will devout 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.
- Title: Kristan Kennedy
- Genre: Unknown
- Length: 29:49 minutes (40.96 MB)
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Joshua Berger and Tiffany Lee Brown of Plazm
Joshua Berger and Tiffany Lee Brown of Plazm talk about 20 years in which Plazm has been in print.
- Title: Joshua Berger and Tiffany Lee Brown of Plazm
- Genre: Unknown
- Length: 31:12 minutes (42.84 MB)
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Pacific NW Art Program with Ben Dye, Jen Fuller and William Rihel
Now there is a Recology Program where artists go to the dump and make work from it. Some of them joined us on Art Focus. The artists involved are: Ben Dye, Jen Fuller, William Rihel, Mike Suri, and Leslie Vigeant. Rihel, Dye and Fuller will joined us here.
- Title: Artists from the Recology Program
- Genre: Unknown
- Length: 30:32 minutes (41.93 MB)
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Lynda Ater
Lynda Ater has a show at Blackfish right now called Inside Out: Embelling Albers' Square. She talks about Joseph Albers, Hommage to the Square, color, patterns she made from cancer cell shapes and past exhibitions in which she investigates color.
- Artist: Unknown
- Title: Track 1
- Album: Untitled - 08-16-11
- Track: 1
- Genre: Unknown
- Length: 28:53 minutes (39.66 MB)
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C.O.P.S.
Four artists here in Portland are offering 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.
The guests/instructors are: Sean Carney, Matthew Green, Patrick Rock and Michael Reinsch.
- Title: Conceptual Oregon Performance School
- Genre: art talk
- Length: 29:50 minutes (40.98 MB)
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Lisa Radon, writer and curator
Lisa Radon is our guest - a writer and poet turned curator. The group show she curated is called Reading. Writing.
Reading.Writing. is an exhibition about the intersections between the practices of reading and writing and art making. It is the möbius strip where writing is a kind of reading is a kind of writing ∞. On August 5, 2011 Reading.Writing. opens at galleryHOMELAND, the Ford Building (2505 SE 11th, corner of SE 11th and Division), with a reception from 6-9 PM. The exhibition includes work by 18 artists from Portland, San Francisco, Calgary, Belgrade, and Montreal working in video, print, paint, sculpture, embroidery, photography, and publication.
- Title: Curator and Writer Lisa Radon
- Genre: Art Talk
- Length: 28:56 minutes (39.74 MB)
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"You Don't Know What Art i$”
Guest host Wendy Webb speaks with LA Street Phantom aka Joey Krebs, a longstanding force in the L.A. street art scene.
The Denizen Gallery @Milepost 5 and the Plum Bum Gallery brought Krebs to Portland to perform "You Don't Know What Art i$” for the closing of his visual art show “Blacklisted and Banned.” He premiered the piece on this installment of Art Focus.
Joey Krebs, media activist, street artist, performer, and visual artist, along with his collective ARTSAVESLIVES, calls the commodification of "street art" into question. Recently Krebs was one of the protesters of the censorship of the 2011 MOCA graffiti show.
LA Street Phantom aka Joey Krebs was cover artist for the punk-rock-rap group, Rage Against the Machine, for their first platinum album -- “The Battle of Los Angeles.” He was the creative director of two Rage Against the Machine music videos, including the MTV award-winning “Bulls on Parade,” and “Renegades of Funk.” These videos feature Phantom’s signature artwork, the silhouette or shadow, which serves as the archetype for the Public Everyman.
- Length: 27:36 minutes (12.63 MB)
- Format: MP3 Mono 44kHz 64Kbps (CBR)
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Host Eva Lake interviews
Contemporary Craft. Mandy Greer is exhibiting an installation of crochet, braiding, sewing and beading using yarn, beads, shells, feathers and more. Darrel Morris presents large works featuring the stitch on fabric. 



