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Airs at: Tue, 04/02/2024 at 11:30am - 12:00pm
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A radio show about visual art. You get it.

 

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Every 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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Matthew Picton

Airs at: Tue, 09/20/2022 at 11:30am - 12:00pm
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  On Tuesday, September 20, 2022, at 11.30a.m., Joseph Gallivan interviews sculptor Matthew Picton about his show The Age of Kali, age of Belief, which is at Elizabeth Leach Gallery through Oct. 29. Picton talks about apocalyptic religious belief, imperial history, his lov... Read more

“Forces of Nature: Ecology in Japanese Prints” at PAM

Airs at: Tue, 09/13/2022 at 11:30am - 12:00pm
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On Tuesday, September 13, 2022, Joseph Gallivan interviews Jeannie Kenmotsu , Curator of Asian art at the Portland Art Museum, about the new show “Forces of Nature: Ecology in Japanese Prints.” Kenmotsu talks about woodblock printing and the Superflat movement, how Japanes... Read more

Philip Krohn

Airs at: Tue, 09/06/2022 at 11:30am - 12:00pm
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On Tuesday, September 6, 2022, Joseph Gallivan interviews Philip Krohn about his sculpture To The River, which is viewable on weekends in Portland’s South Waterfront through Sept 25, 2022. Krohn talks about lashing long strips of wood together with bicycle inner tubes, work... Read more

Pride NW Mural

Airs at: Tue, 08/30/2022 at 11:30am - 12:00pm
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  Originally aired on 08/17/2021 -- Joseph Gallivan interviews Cassandra Swan, Ruban Lawrence, Asa Wright and Kyra Watkins about the new Pride NW mural at 8th and Couch in Old Town.  They talk about the eight LGBTQ community members or heroes pictured on the mural, called... Read more

Otis Quaicoe

Airs at: Tue, 08/23/2022 at 11:30am - 12:00pm
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On Tuesday, August 23, 2022, Joseph Gallivan interviews painter Otis Quaicoe (PRONOUNCED KWAK-oo) about his show (S)kin Deep, at the Portland Art Museum through December 31, 2022. Quaicoe talks about painting portraits from photos, using black and white for skin tones, usin... Read more

Yuyang Zhang

Airs at: Tue, 08/16/2022 at 11:30am - 12:00pm
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On Tuesday, August 16, 2022, Joseph Gallivan interviews Yuyang Zhang [PRONOUNCED YOO-yung CHUNG) about his show Stupid Little Life, on now at Blue Sky Gallery through August 27, 2022. Zhang talks about his mixed-media digital collages and photographic diptychs which concern... Read more

Land Art in Portland

Airs at: Tue, 08/09/2022 at 11:30am - 12:00pm
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On Tuesday, August 9, 2022, Joseph Gallivan interviews artists Merridawn Duckler and Alice Christine Walker about Sighted Land, a land art show at an undisclosed location in North Portland. Duckler talks about her love of the great land art works of the west and how she cam... Read more

Mariah Harris

Airs at: Tue, 08/02/2022 at 11:30am - 12:00pm
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On Tuesday, August 2, 2022, Joseph Gallivan interviews photographer Mariah Harris about her photos of Portland protests in the exhibit Perspectives, on now at Portland Art Museum until November 13. Harris talks about going to over 75 protests, both to represent and to take ... Read more

Michihiro Kosuge

Airs at: Tue, 07/26/2022 at 11:30am - 12:00pm
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On Tuesday, July 26, 2022, Joseph Gallivan interviews Dylan Russo Lawrence about legendary Portland sculptor Michihiro Kosuge [PRONOUNCED MEECH-ee-HEE-ro  ko-SOO-gay] and his Memorial Exhibition at Russo Lee Gallery through July 30, 2022. Kosuge was the life partner of gall... Read more

Kelli Connell

Airs at: Tue, 07/19/2022 at 11:30am - 12:00pm
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On Tuesday, July 19, 2022, Joseph Gallivan interviews photographer Kelli Connell about her show “Double Life, 20 Years” which is on now at Blue Sky Gallery through July 30. “Double Life” shows a relationship as a domestic drama shot over 20 years with one model playing two ... Read more