Art Focus

Art Focus features interviews with artists, curators, gallerists, writers and other art people. 

On Tuesday May 21, 2013, Joseph Gallivan will interview Sarah Margolis-Pineo, Associate Curator at Museum of Contemporary Craft, about the exhibition Object Focus: The Bowl.

The show looks at the humble bowl in the context of Art, craft and everyday life.

On May 14th Eva Lake interviewed Sandy Roumagoux, who is showing at Blackfish.

On April 23rd Joseph Gallivan will interview Terri Hopkins about two shows on incarceration that she has curated at the Art Gym. 

On April 16 Brian Ferriso, Director of the Portland Art Museum, was Eva Lake's guest.

Philip Iosca was Eva Lake's guest for the April 2, 2013 episode of Art Focus. He had a show at Fourteen30 Contemporary.

Rita Robillard was our guest on February 26th. She had a show at Augen Gallery this month.

Michelle Ross was Eva Lake's guest on February 12th. She showed at the Museum of Contemporary Craft.

On Tuesday Feb 5, Joseph Gallivan interviewed Julia Dolan about photographer Carrie Mae Weems. The retrospective exhibition, "Carrie Mae Weems: Three Decades of Photography and Video" runs at the Portland Art Museum February 2 – May 19, 2013. Julia Dolan is the museum's Minor White Curator of Photography

 

On January 29th Eva Lake interviewed Kerry Tymchuk, Executive Director of the Oregon Historical Society. They talked about events and exhibitions happening for Black History Month.

On Tuesday January 22 at 11.30am Joseph Gallivan interviewed Mariana Tres, curator of the Society for Nebulous Knowledge, about the show "Celestial Clockwork." In her show at Chambers@916 Gallery, Tres presents the artefacts of 19th Century Astoria clockmaker and astronomer Herschel McShougle.

Check below for audiofiles and information on all our past guests.

 

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Art Focus

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Tue, 03/31/2009 - 11:30am - 12:00pm
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Chris Haberman talks about his upcoming shows

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Chris will be showing at the Launch Pad in April, at the Goodfoot in May and he also has a July show at 23Sandy. Busy guy!

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Tue, 03/24/2009 - 11:30am - 12:00pm
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Vanessa Renwick talks about her new show

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Tue, 03/17/2009 - 11:30am - 12:00pm
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Andres discusses his current show of paintings

Mark Andres discussed his current work on show at Augen Desoto. The exhibition is called Painting in Time. Listen to the interview here.

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Tue, 03/10/2009 - 11:30am - 12:00pm
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Alicia McDaid, artist showing at the MK Gallery

Alicia McDaid opened a new exhibition at the MK Gallery of PSU this month.  The show is called "Pain is fear leaving your body." Listen to the interview here.

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Tue, 03/03/2009 - 11:30am - 12:00pm
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Ben Pink will talk about the Love show and upcoming shows at Launch Pad

Ben Pink is director of Launch Pad Gallery and also curator of the currently running LOVE Show at the Olympic Mills in the SE. We talked about Love and upcoming shows at Launch Pad. Listen to the interview here.

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Thu, 02/26/2009 - 10:30am - 11:00am
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Jim Archer talks about his new work at Life Gallery

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Jim Archer is known as a curator who worked for years at the Archer Gallery at Clark College. He is also know for his collage work. Now however he is showing paintings, small portraits of faces at the Life Gallery in the Everett Station Lofts.

Note: Art Focus will have a new timeslot starting in March. Starting next week we will broadcast every Tuesday at 11:30am.

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Thu, 02/19/2009 - 10:30am - 11:00am
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Leslie Miller and Mark Warren Jacques of Fontanelle will talk about the new show at the gallery.

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Art Focus will interview Leslie Miller, co-founder of Fontanelle, along with Mark Warren Jacques, the artist currently showing at the gallery. Jacques presents Big Beautiful Color (example above), an exhibition featuring interactive installation, painting, and sculpture.

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Thu, 02/12/2009 - 10:30am - 11:00am
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Patrick Rock will talk about his work as both an artist and as a curator.

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Patrick Rock is an artist and also the curator of Rocksbox. He also works with the MK Gallery and the Autzen Gallery at PSU.

Art Focus

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Thu, 02/05/2009 - 10:30am - 11:00am
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Jesse Durost has a one person show at Fourteen30. He will talk about his new work.

 

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Jesse Durost will discuss the making and installation of his exhibition at Fourteen30 in SE Portland. The exhibition opened January 23rd. Durost's Fabrications explore his "own vocabulary of architectural forms." More information at Fourteen30.

Art Focus

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Thu, 01/22/2009 - 10:30am - 11:00am

Host Eva Lake interviews Mandy Greer and Darrel Morris, two artists currently showing at the Museum of Contemporary Craft. Mandy Greer is exhibiting an installation of crochet, braiding, sewing and beading using yarn, beads, shells, feathers and more.  Darrel Morris presents large works featuring the stitch on fabric.

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Robert Tomlinson

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Tue, 01/10/2012

 Robert Tomlinson is currently showing mixed media works at Guardino Gallery. He is also a curator woth many different projects.

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New Avenues for Youth Public Art Project

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Tue, 01/03/2012

Local homeless youth are collaborating with artists and businesses to beautify our town, via New Avenues for Youth.

Billions and Billions of People collaborative art Installation is transforming a construction site into a work of art. With the vision and support from a premier real estate development company, TMT Development, thirty local homeless youth served by New Avenues for Youth had the unique opportunity to work alongside an internationally famed artist, earn a paycheck and feel connected to the city they call home.


That artist would be Chris Johanson. He joined us (via phone) - plus the Associate Executive Director Sean Suib and two of the youth participants  - on Art Focus.
 


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Elizabeth Leach on the group show Body Gesture

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Tue, 12/20/2011

 Elizabeth Leach was our guest on Art Focus. We discussed the current show at her gallery, Body Gesture.


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Molly Vidor

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Tue, 12/06/2011

Molly Vidor talks about her show Honeydrippers, still life paintings at PDX.

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The Portland Art Collective

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Tue, 11/29/2011

Portland Art Collective hosts "Open Doors" at the Multnomah Art Center on December 2nd and 3rd. Robin Olsen and Lorraine Jones of the collective were our guests.

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foreGround at the Littman Gallery

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Tue, 11/22/2011

Jeff Jahn has curated foreGround at the Littman Gallery. Artists include Ben Young, Jim Neidhardt, Zach Davis, Arcy Douglass, Jacqueline Ehlis and Matthew Picton. Jahn and Douglass were our guests on November 22nd.

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Art Focus on 11/15/11

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Tue, 11/15/2011

Our guest is Laurie Danial, who has a show at Froelick Gallery during the month of November. The show comprises of paintings and prints and is called Control Release Control.

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Martha Lee, owner and director of the Laura Russo Gallery

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Tue, 11/08/2011
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Art Focus 10/25/2011

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Fri, 10/28/2011

Guest host Paige Prendergast talks to local artist and art instructor Ryan Bubnis about his art and hid upcoming shows.

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Art Focus on 10/04/11

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Tue, 10/04/2011

Guest host Wendy Webb interviews photographer Jim Lommasson about the show What We Carried at Launchpad Gallery. The show is a collaborative project conceived by Jim Lommasson and Oregon Iraqi Refugees. The exhibit will include photographs and writing and paintings by Farooq Hassan and Samir Khurshid.

Here are links/info about the show:

What We Carried
Fragments from the Cradle of Civilization
October 7th - 29th, 2011

http://launchpadgallery.org/category/exhibits/

http://lommasson.blogspot.com/

http://theoregoniraqirefugeeproject.blogspot.com/

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