Art Focus

On Tuesday, May 25, 2021, at 11:30 a.m. Joseph Gallivan interviews artists

Malia Jensen and Nan Curtis about Exquisite Scrolls: Collaborative Drawings

for the Pacific Northwest College of Art.

These are 13 scrolls, ten feet long, each the work of eight mostly Portland

arti...

On Tuesday, April 27, 2021, at 11:30 a.m. Joseph Gallivan interviews Dawson

Carr, the curator of European art at the Portland Art Museum, about his

career in Portland and his coming retirement. Carr talks about some works he

purchased for the museum, including the famous cr...

On Tuesday, April 20, 2021 at 11:30 a.m. Joseph Gallivan interviews artist

Sarah Horowitz about her show Blue, which is at Froelick Gallery though May

29. Horowitz talks about producing ink drawings and etchings of ponderosa

pines and seed heads, her art book and print maki...

On Tuesday, April 13, 2021, at 11.30 am Aurora Josephson talks to Martha

Bergman of Art Construction Mgt about color theory and practice. She explains

what a hue is, and how the big four painters of the Renaissance worked their

magic in color. 

 

Guest contact info: Marth...

On Tuesday, April 6, 2021 at 11:30 a.m. Joseph Gallivan interviews Julia

Dolan, the curator of Photography at the Portland Art Museum, about the

upcoming show Ansel Adams In Our Time. Dolan talks about Adams’s beginnings

as a teenage tourist in Yosemite, his gradual progres...

On Tuesday March 30, 2021 at 11:30 a.m. in the fourth of her pandemic studio

visits, Aurora Josephson interviews painter Henk Pander about his new works

depicting the Portland protests of 2020, classic ships and other dramatic

scenes. Pander talks about realism, theater, va...

On Tuesday, March 23, 2021 at 11:30 a.m. Joseph Gallivan interviews art

historians Dr. Christopher Heath Brown and Dr. Jean-Pierre Isbouts

[PRONOUNCED IZZ-boots] talk about Catalan surrealist artist Salvador Dali and

why he still has an impact on popular culture. They draw ...

On Tuesday March 16, 2021 at 11:30 a.m. Joseph Gallivan interviews Mollye

Asher, producer of the movie Nomadland starring Frances MacDormand. Asher

talks to Art Focus about the role of a producer in helping a director realize

their vision, the character of the light in the ...

On Tuesday March 9, 2021 at 11:30 a.m. Joseph Gallivan interviews visionary

painters Kia Zora and Ila Rose about their show “We Are A Part” at the

Red E Café. They talk about symbolic animals and plants, their color

choices, how long they work on a painting and the role of ...