Art Focus

On Tuesday March 8, 2022, Joseph Gallivan interviews photographer Jess T.

Dugan about their show To Survive on This Shore: Photographs and Interviews

with Transgender and Gender Nonconforming Older Adults. This photo exhibition

is at Portland State University through April ...

On Tuesday March 1, 2022, Joseph Gallivan interviews Sarah-Kate Nomura about

Fashion and Fantasy: The Art of Netsuke [PRONOUNCED NET-scay] Carvings, which

is on now at Portland Japanese Garden through April 17. Netsuke were toggles

which were for holding a purse or pouch on...

We rebroadcast and update Aurora Josephson's interview with her father the

artist Gregory Grenon from October 2021, in light of his recent passing.

There will be a memorial exhibition of his life’s work this

April at the Schnitzer Museum on Yeon.

Jordan Schnitzer Family Fo...

On Tuesday February 1, 2022, Joseph Gallivan interviews Sara Krajewski,[

PRONOUNCED krah-JESS-kee] the curator of Modern and Contemporary Art at the

Portland Art Museum, about the show “Frida Kahlo, Diego Rivera and Mexican

Modernism” which runs February 19 to June 5. Kraje...

On Tuesday February 8, 2022, Joseph Gallivan interviews Maryanna Ramirez and

Edmund Holmes about Black Lives Matter Artist Grant Exhibition, which is on

now through April 30 at Portland State University. Gallery Director Remirez

and artist and Nike designer Holmes talk abou...

On Tuesday February 1, 2022, Joseph Gallivan interviews visionary painter

Noel Taylor. Taylor talks about using the mische technique to make oil

paintings that feel backlit, how his abstract forms come to him in a

meditative state and how he stops his ego from taking over. ...

On Tuesday January 25, 2022, Joseph Gallivan interviews artist KHEM, about

his show Smiles of Planet Earth in Portland, Oregon. KHEM paints simple black

curves on white paper, arranged in patterns whose meaning he decodes after he

has completed the work. KHEM has travelled ...

On Tuesday January 18, 2022, Joseph Gallivan interviews artist Julie Rall

about her installation “A Soft Landing” which is up now through January

30, 2022. Rall talks about how a parachute and a labyrinth made of salt can

symbolize her feelings about how COVID and global wa...

KBOO Art Focus web blurb Bonnie Meltzer Jan 4, 2022

 

On Tuesday January 4, 2022, Joseph Gallivan interviews multimedia artist

Bonnie Meltzer, whose exhibition Mending the Social Fabric is on at the

Oregon Jewish Museum through January 30, 2022. Meltzer has hung up a 1943 ...