Art Focus

On Tuesday, February 7, 2023, at 11.30am Joseph Gallivan interviews artists

Shelley Socolofsky and Vo Vo about their work in the group show Weaving Data,

which is on now through April 29 at Portland State University.

Vo Vo, who is an anarchist, talks about their tapestry de...

On Tuesday, January 24, 2023, at 11.30am Joseph Gallivan interviews Mary

Chapin [pronounced CHAY-pin with “ch” as in “chop”] about the

painting “The Madonna of the Magnificat” by Sandro Botticelli. The 15th

century masterpiece is on show now at the Portland Art Museum until...

On Tuesday, January 17, 2023, at 11.30am Joseph Gallivan interviews artist

Tad Savinar about his new show Musings from the Future, which is on now at

PDX Contemporary Art though Feb 25. Savinar talks about the parlous state of

politics and the planet, time spent at home dur...

On Tuesday, January 10, 2023, at 11.30am Joseph Gallivan interviews Helen

Swift of the Portland Art Museum about “Human | Nature: 150 Years of

Japanese Landscape Prints” which is on now through May 7.

Swift, who is the Japan Foundation Assistant Curator of Japanese Art, pla...

At 11.30a.m. On Tuesday, December 13, 2022, Joseph Gallivan interviews artist

Dave Haslett [PRONOUNCED HAZE-let] about the 30th anniversary group show at

Waterstone Gallery. Haslett discusses some of his fellow artist-members’

pieces in the show, the history of Waterstone, ...

On Tuesday, December 6, 2022, Joseph Gallivan interviews Sima Familant,

curator of The Earth Laughs, a show at The Lobby Gallery at Southeast 28th

and Division in Portland. The Earth Laughs focuses on flower art from the

collection of Molly McCabe, who owns the Ellen Browni...

On Tuesday, November 29, 2022, Joseph Gallivan interviews Blackfish Gallery

artists Alice Christine Walker, Barbara Black and Christopher Shotola-Hardt

[PRONOUNCED SHAD-OLA HART] about Blackfish’s new space at Northwest Nonth

and Flanders. The artist owners talk about the l...

On Tuesday, November 22, 2022, Joseph Gallivan interviews Hannah Bakken

Morris, co-curator of the show, “Commonly Uncommon - Selections from the

Museum of Contemporary Craft Collection” which runs now through Dec 10 at

the Pacific Northwest College of Art. Bakken Morris tal...

On Tuesday, November 1, 2022, Joseph Gallivan interviews Elizabeth Leach and

Bruce Guenther for the 40th anniversary of the Elizabeth Leach Gallery. They

talk about the maturing of the art scene in Portland since the 1970s, the

relationship to museums, and the work that hap...

On Tuesday, Oct 25, at 11.30 a.m. Joseph Gallivan talks to curator Melissa

Martens Yaverbaum about Harley Gaber’s collage, “Die Plage,” on now at

the Oregon Jewish Museum and Center for Holocaust Education, Portland,

through Jan. 29, 2023. Yaverbaum talks about Gaber’s diff...