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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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Avantika Bawa at Disjecta

Airs at: Tue, 03/29/2011 at 11:30am - 12:00pm
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Guest host Wendy Webb interviews  Avantika Bawa who will be showing at Disjecta starting April 2nd. Curator Jenene Nagy joins them. This is a link to Disjecta: http://www.disjecta.org/events/nagy-2011.php and some links on Avantika's artwork: http://registry.whitecolu... Read more

Matt Cosby

Airs at: Wed, 03/23/2011 at 11:30am - 12:00pm
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Matt Cosby discusses his painting show PEAKS & TROUGHS at Augen Gallery. www.augengallery.com/Artists/cosby.html Read more

John Motley

Airs at: Tue, 03/22/2011 at 11:30am - 12:00pm
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John Motley contributes pieces to the Oregonian, Art Papers and other publications. He’ has just published a collection of critical essays that were developed alongside exhibitions at Fourteen30. The book is called Stay Time. Originally published as a series of limited e... Read more

Painter Henk Pander on His Life and Work

Airs at: Tue, 03/15/2011 at 11:30am - 12:00pm
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Guest host Tom Cramer interviews artist Henk Pander about his life and work. The Hallie Ford Museum of Art opened a major exhibition of the art of Henk Pander on January 29, 2011. It surveys the range of Pander’s oil paintings, watercolors, drawings, posters, and theatric... Read more

Bonnie Laing-Malcolmson

Airs at: Tue, 03/01/2011 at 11:30am - 12:00pm
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Bonnie Laing-Malcolmson joined us on Art Focus . She is the new curator of Northwest Art at the Portland Art Museum and has recently announced the finalists and winners of the Contemporary Northwest Art Awards. Read more

Portland Art Writers on Criticism

Airs at: Tue, 02/15/2011 at 11:30am - 12:00pm
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My guests were Lisa Radon of Ultrapdx, Jeff Jahn of PORT, Barry Johnson (who wrote and edited for years at the O) and Brian Libby of Portland Architecture. We discussed art criticism in general and in Portland in particular. Read more

Curator and Artist Jesse Hayward

Airs at: Tue, 02/01/2011 at 11:30am - 12:00pm
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The next exhibition at the White Box will be COLLECT FOUR: Scenes From Portland’s Bleeding Edge. This show includes four artists and is curated by Jesse Hayward. He is the subject in this interview. Hayward claims: "The artists in this show are all, first and foremost, ... Read more

Daniel Fagereng

Airs at: Tue, 01/25/2011 at 11:30am - 12:00pm
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Daniel Fagereng presents "The MA in Modernism" at the Japanese Garden here in Portland. This show compliments the Ishimoto Yasuhiro photographs of the Katsura Imperial Villa also on display at the Garden. Read more

Designer Mary Adams

Airs at: Tue, 01/18/2011 at 11:30am - 12:00pm
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a shop called  Mary Adams The Dress. She's from Oregon and opened her storefront in the Lower East side in the early 80s. Now she has a book out called The Party Dress in which she shows you step by step how to make one of your own. Mary is truly an artist working with t... Read more

Ben Pink and Chris Haberman

Airs at: Tue, 01/11/2011 at 11:30am - 12:00pm
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Ben Pink will be our guest along with Chris Haberman. Ben runs Launchpad and Chris has curated more shows that I could list. Launchpad right now is hosting a collaborative exhibition of Chris with Scott Chase called The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (see image above). Read more