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Airs at: Tue, 02/11/2025 at 11:30am - 12:00pm

Airs at: Tue, 02/25/2025 at 11:30am - 12:00pm
Art Focus
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Every Second and Fourth 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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Pacific NW Art Program with Ben Dye, Jen Fuller and William Rihel

Airs at: Tue, 08/23/2011 at 11:30am - 12:00pm
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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.     Read more

Lynda Ater

Airs at: Tue, 08/16/2011 at 11:30am - 12:00pm
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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.  Ater has embellished the s... Read more

C.O.P.S.

Airs at: Tue, 08/09/2011 at 11:30am - 12:00pm
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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 s... Read more

Lisa Radon, writer and curator

Airs at: Tue, 08/02/2011 at 11:30am - 12:00pm
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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... Read more

"You Don't Know What Art i$”

Airs at: Tue, 07/26/2011 at 11:30am - 12:00pm
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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 a... Read more

Cynthia Mosser

Airs at: Tue, 07/19/2011 at 11:30am - 12:00pm
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Cynthia Mosser has a show up at Augen Desoto this month. It's all about the egg, small and large pieces, layer upon layer of the oval. Some of the pieces are egg-shaped too. The show is called Eggs Obsession.   Read more

Ray Boyle and Sarah Farahat

Airs at: Tue, 07/12/2011 at 11:30am - 12:00pm
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Our guests here include Ray Boyle, who curated Coffee with Cardamom at Place II at the Settlement in Pioneer Square. This show includes the solo exhibition Can You See Me Now? (Part One): Reflections on Palestine by Sarah Farahat, who was also our guest. Coffee with Cardamo... Read more

Appendix Project Space

Airs at: Tue, 06/28/2011 at 11:30am - 12:00pm
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The three curators from Appendix Project Space  joined us:  Joshua Pavlacky, Travis Fitzgerald and Zack Davis. The upcoming show at Appendix is Neverland by Daniel J. Glendening and Michael Welsch. Read more

Paige Prendergast of Breeze Block Gallery

Airs at: Tue, 06/21/2011 at 11:30am - 12:00pm
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 Paige Prendergast, director of Breeze Block, is our guest on Art Focus. Her current show is Concrete and Steel, a multimedia exhibition of urban geometry, features the work of Nick Makanna, Joe Chambers and Kit Crenshaw. Read more

John Graeter

Airs at: Tue, 06/14/2011 at 11:30am - 12:00pm
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John Graeter was our guest - he has organized all kinds of art extravaganzas around town, including the Manor of Art. Now he’s opening a gallery. Look for it later this year. Read more