Art Focus

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Airs at: Tue, 05/13/2025 at 11:30am - 12:00pm

Airs at: Tue, 05/27/2025 at 11:30am - 12:00pm

Hosted by:

Joseph Gallivan

Produced by:

KBOO

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A radio show about visual art. You get it.

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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Topic tags:

Arts/Culture

Genre(s):

Arts and Culture

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KBOO Stream 1

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Joseph Gallivan interviews Bob Koch of Augen Gallery about Indian painter Ajay Garg

Airs at: Tue, 06/05/2018 at 11:30am - 12:00pm

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On Tuesday June 5, 2018 Joseph Gallivan interviews Bob Koch of Augen Gallery about Indian painter Ajay Garg. He talks about the deaf and mute painter’s international success in painting in the style of the mogul empire. Garg lives in Jaipur in northwest India and makes a... Read more

Amanda Clem interviews Shawn Creeden, Xi Jie Ng, and Ralph Pugay from Portland Tropical Gardens

Airs at: Tue, 05/29/2018 at 11:30am - 12:00pm

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Art Focus host Amanda Clem speaks with Shawn Creeden, Xi Jie Ng, and Ralph Pugay — a few of the artists who have conceived of the Portland Tropical Gardens — a temporary public art space and oasis in the middle of Director Park in Downtown Portland, on SW Park and SW... Read more

Amanda Clem interviews Alyson Provax about her exhibition you i everything else

Airs at: Tue, 05/15/2018 at 11:30am - 12:00pm

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Art Focus host Amanda Clem speaks with Portland artist Alyson Provax about her artistic practice, The Bachelor, and her exhibition you i everything else — on view at Wolff Gallery May 2nd - July 1st, 2018 ARTISTS STATEMENT: you i everything else Sometimes I have... Read more

Welcome to Your Cell

Airs at: Tue, 05/08/2018 at 11:30am - 12:00pm

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Eric Bartels interviews Vanessa Renwick, curator of the multimedia exhibit Welcome to your Cell, which opens Saturday, May 12 at Outer Space in Northeast Portland. The installation features the Guardian's virtual reality experience "6 x 9", and Hakim's Tale, by Phila... Read more

Joseph Gallivan interviews tattoo artists Dan Gilsdorf and Alena Chun

Airs at: Tue, 05/01/2018 at 11:30am - 12:00pm

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Joseph Gallivan interviews tattoo artists Dan Gilsdorf and Alena Chun On Tuesday May 1, 2018 Joseph Gallivan interviews tattoo artists Dan Gilsdorf and Alena Chun. They talk about the distinction between high and low art, what it’s like running a tattoo business and why c... Read more

Ceramic Showcase & Northwest Potters Interpret Their World

Airs at: Tue, 04/24/2018 at 11:30am - 12:00pm

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Art Focus Eric Bartels interviews Becky Clark, president of the Oregon Potters Association, the collective behind the 36th annual Ceramic Showcase, which opens Friday, April 27th at the Oregon Convention Center. The OPA says the three-day event, which features the wo... Read more

Joseph Gallivan interviews Tsilli Pines and Crystal Rutland about Design Week Portland 2018

Airs at: Tue, 04/17/2018 at 11:30am - 12:00pm

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Joseph Gallivan interviews Tsilli Pines and Crystal Rutland about Design Week Portland 2018 On Tuesday, April 17, 2018, at 11.30am Joseph Gallivan interviews Tsilli Pines and Crystal Rutland about Design Week Portland 2018, a week-long festival of 300 plus events runnin... Read more

Art Focus on 04/10/18

Airs at: Tue, 04/10/2018 at 11:30am - 12:00pm

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Delicate Moments: Gregory Grenon

Airs at: Tue, 04/03/2018 at 11:30am - 12:00pm

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Eric Bartels interviews the longtime Portland painter Gregory Grenon, whose nearly exclusive devotion to images of women has generated misconceptions for decades, and artist Mary Josephson, his wife of 27 years. Grenon's new show Delicate Moments, opens at the Russo L... Read more