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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
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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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James Lavadour

Airs at: Tue, 03/30/2010 at 11:30am - 12:00pm
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In April PDX Contemporary Art presents Geographies of the Same Stone: for TT by the painter James Lavadour. Here Lavadour talks about his process in painting. Read more

Cris Moss, curator of Portland 2010 Biennial

Airs at: Tue, 03/23/2010 at 11:30am - 12:00pm
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For contemporary art fans in this town, the last two weekends have been filled with the Portland 2010 Biennial. Disjecta is producing this secession of art events with help from a grant from the Oregon Cultural Trust. Art Focus on KBOO already broke the initial story of how... Read more

Timothy Scott Dalbow

Airs at: Tue, 03/16/2010 at 11:30am - 12:00pm
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Timothy Scott Dalbow has an interesting show up at the New American Art Union called “I Don’t Know Anyone in Paris.” The artist moved into the space, using it as his studio, painting mostly at night. On the opening night, there was only a big white, bare canvas, a couple of... Read more

proof : women : art : science exhibition

Airs at: Tue, 03/09/2010 at 11:30am - 12:00pm
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  This week's broadcast is around the exhibition Proof: Art : Women : Science at Beppu Wiarda . My guests include the curator Lorna Nakell, the art historian Elizabeth Bilyeu and gallerist Gail Beppu. Throughout this month the gallery is presenting discussions every Sunday... Read more

Bruce Guenther on "Disquieted"

Airs at: Tue, 03/02/2010 at 11:30am - 12:00pm
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The guest is Bruce Guenther, curator of modern and contemporary art at the Portland Art Museum. Bruce Guenther curated the current exhibition, DISQUIETED, which shows through May 16th. Artists have always reflected and reacted to the world around them—and contemporary art, ... Read more

Signs of Change and Gestures of Resistance

Airs at: Tue, 02/23/2010 at 11:30am - 12:00pm
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Art Focus presents a look at two current exhibitions in Portland dealing with protest and social change, Signs of Change: Social Movement Cultures 1960s to Now at PNCA and Gestures of Resistance at the Museum of Contemporary Craft. The guests are Namita Wiggers, Curator at ... Read more

Art on the Vine, an auction to benefit OCAC

Airs at: Tue, 02/16/2010 at 11:30am - 12:00pm
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Bonnie Laing-Malcomson, president of the Oregon College of Art and Craft and Joyce Campbell, co-chair of the event Art on the Vine were our guests for Art Focus. We talked about the auction, the history of the college and how craft thrives in the Pacific Northwest. Read more

Corey Smith's "Obsolete Dreams"

Airs at: Tue, 02/09/2010 at 11:30am - 12:00pm
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My guest this week on Art Focus was Corey Smith. I've caught his shows here and there and now he's at Worksound, showing !Obsolete Dreams, all mixed media pieces. Smith is an Oregon artist who moved to Los Angeles - a lot of the work riffs on the deterioration of the Califo... Read more

Soul Recovery Systems

Airs at: Tue, 02/02/2010 at 11:30am - 12:00pm
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Felicity Fenton and Michael T. Hensley have formed Soul Recovery Systems, a project which helps us get rid of our inner trash. They talk about their videos, photo documentation and examples of this work. Read more

Linda Tesner talks about "What is a Trade?"

Airs at: Tue, 01/26/2010 at 11:30am - 12:00pm
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Linda Tesner, curator of Lewis and Clark's Hoffman Gallery, talks about "What is a Trade?" This is a show by Donald Fels who collaborated with Indian sign painters to address globalization in India. The xhibition has large scale paintings, intense with color and graphics. Read more