Latest Content for Art Focus

On Tuesday March 8, 2022, Joseph Gallivan interviews photographer Jess T. Dugan about their show To Survive on This Shore: Photographs and Interviews with Transgender and Gender Nonconforming Older Adults. This photo exhibition is at Portland State University through Apr... Read more

On Tuesday March 1, 2022, Joseph Gallivan interviews Sarah-Kate Nomura about Fashion and Fantasy: The Art of Netsuke [PRONOUNCED NET-scay] Carvings, which is on now at Portland Japanese Garden through April 17. Netsuke were toggles which were for holding a purse or pouch... Read more

We rebroadcast and update Aurora Josephson's interview with her father the artist Gregory Grenon from October 2021, in light of his recent passing. There will be a memorial exhibition of his life’s work this April at the Schnitzer Museum on Yeon. Jordan Schnitzer Family F... Read more

On Tuesday February 1, 2022, Joseph Gallivan interviews Sara Krajewski,[ PRONOUNCED krah-JESS-kee] the curator of Modern and Contemporary Art at the Portland Art Museum, about the show “Frida Kahlo, Diego Rivera and Mexican Modernism” which runs February 19 to June 5. Kr... Read more

On Tuesday February 8, 2022, Joseph Gallivan interviews Maryanna Ramirez and Edmund Holmes about Black Lives Matter Artist Grant Exhibition, which is on now through April 30 at Portland State University. Gallery Director Remirez and artist and Nike designer Holmes talk a... Read more

On Tuesday February 1, 2022, Joseph Gallivan interviews visionary painter Noel Taylor. Taylor talks about using the mische technique to make oil paintings that feel backlit, how his abstract forms come to him in a meditative state and how he stops his ego from taking ove... Read more

On Tuesday January 25, 2022, Joseph Gallivan interviews artist KHEM, about his show Smiles of Planet Earth in Portland, Oregon. KHEM paints simple black curves on white paper, arranged in patterns whose meaning he decodes after he has completed the work. KHEM has travell... Read more

On Tuesday January 18, 2022, Joseph Gallivan interviews artist Julie Rall about her installation “A Soft Landing” which is up now through January 30, 2022. Rall talks about how a parachute and a labyrinth made of salt can symbolize her feelings about how COVID and global... Read more