Art Focus
Art Focus features interviews with artists, curators, gallerists, writers and other art people. Sometimes we talk about current exhibitions. Sometimes we just gossip.
On the 17th of August Julie Perini will talk about "Girl Next Door," a video at Pushdot.
Sherrie Wolf has a show of "Faces" - all from art history - up at the Laura Russo Gallery. She was my guest on the 3rd of August.
On July 20th Diane Jacobs was be our guest. Currently she has a show up called Bowing to Paradox at 23 Sandy – an installation in the front gallery and a room full of objects in back. The gallery website has plenty of installation shots.
Jeff Jahn has curated group shows with far-reaching consequences. He also co-founded PORT, a website all about Portland art. He is also a practicing artist - he showed Vection at The New American Art Union . He was our guest on the 13th of July.
Check below for audiofiles and information on all our past guests.
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Julie Perini
Julie Perini talks about her video "Girl Next Door" at Pushdot.
- Title: Julie Perini talks about the video "Girl Next Door"
- Genre: Unknown
- Length: 30:34 minutes (41.98 MB)
- Format: MP3 Stereo 44kHz 192Kbps (CBR)
Michelle Ross on "Home Curating"
The exhibition was inspired by the book, "The Gift," by Lewis Hyde and seeks to illuminate the non-commercial aspect of artistic practice and its importance in a culture increasingly overrun by money and commodities.
- Title: Michelle Ross on "Home Curating"
- Length: 29:31 minutes (27.02 MB)
- Format: MP3 Mono 44kHz 128Kbps (CBR)
Sherrie Wolf shows "Faces" at the Laura Russo Gallery
In August Sherrie Wolf will show “Faces” at the Laura Russo Gallery. All the paintings of faces are from art history. Each piece is no bigger than a foot square. Some will be hung in a long line-up, some will be put into a grid. If you’re down with your art history, you’re going to see some familiar faces – Wolf has lifted from Rembrandt, Ingres, Vigee Le Brun, Vermeer, Goya, Caravaggio and many others. She seems to have adapted the approach of each individual painter, not just the details of a face.
- Title: Sherrie Wolf
- Length: 28:50 minutes (39.61 MB)
- Format: MP3 Stereo 44kHz 192Kbps (CBR)
Diane Jacobs at 23 Sandy
Jeff Jahn talks about "Vection" at NAAU
Jeff Jahn blasted into this town over ten years ago, curating group shows with far-reaching consequences. Jeff also co-founded PORT, a website all about Portland art – and he occasionally writes elsewhere (such as for Modern Painters). He is also a practicing artist and this month he is showing Vection at The New American Art Union and we’ll talk about the work on Art Focus tomorrow. OPENWIDEpdx has some installation pics here.
- Title: Jeff Jahn talks about "Vection" at the NAAU
- Genre: Unknown
- Length: 30:10 minutes (41.42 MB)
- Format: MP3 Stereo 44kHz 192Kbps (CBR)
Calvin Ross Carl talks about his show at Half Dozen
Calvin Ross Carl - he’s got a website, a blog. .... and another website. He’s a curator. He’s an artist with a show called Purple Mountain Majesty right now at Half Dozen. He talks about it all on Art Focus.
- Title: Calvin Ross Carl
- Genre: Unknown
- Length: 30:38 minutes (42.08 MB)
- Format: MP3 Stereo 44kHz 192Kbps (CBR)
Photographer Lauren Henkin on her new book, "Displaced"
"Displaced" is a handmade limited edition book.

Lauren Henkin also teaches workshops for artists on fundraising and marketing your work. She has a studio in North Portland on Mississippi Avenue.
http://www.displacedproject.com/
- Title: Photographer Lauren Henkin on her new book, "Displaced"
- Producer: Wendy Webb
- Length: 27:58 minutes (25.6 MB)
- Format: MP3 Mono 44kHz 128Kbps (CBR)
Deanne Belinoff at Beppu Wiarda Gallery
Deanne Belinoff has mixed media and paintings at the Beppu Wiarda Gallery. The artist talks about her current show, her process and the history of her career.
- Title: Deanne Belinoff
- Genre: Unknown
- Length: 29:38 minutes (40.71 MB)
- Format: MP3 Stereo 44kHz 192Kbps (CBR)
Eva Lake and Tom Cramer on the target collages at Augen Gallery
Tom Cramer talks to Eva Lake about Target Photomontages at Augen Gallery.
- Title: Eva Lake and Tom Cramer on Target Photomontages
- Genre: Unknown
- Length: 31:32 minutes (43.32 MB)
- Format: MP3 Stereo 44kHz 192Kbps (CBR)
Wid Chambers
Wid Chambers has a show at Chambers @ 916. It is an installation of both painting and sculpture in one. the shapes are organic and colorful and are based on drawings then taken through a computer program.
- Artist: Unknown
- Title: Track 1
- Album: Untitled - 06-08-10
- Track: 1
- Genre: Unknown
- Length: 30:49 minutes (42.33 MB)
- Format: MP3 Stereo 44kHz 192Kbps (CBR)




