Art Focus

On Tuesday December 11, 2018, at 11.30 a.m. Joseph Gallivan interviews

curator Peggy Sue Amison about the photo show In Transit which is on now at

Blue Sky Gallery through December 30. Amison will talk about five

photographers whose work is about displacement and the realit...

On Tuesday December 4, 2018, Joseph Gallivan interviews painter Ralph Pugay

[pron. poo-guy] about A Spiritual Guide to Brute Force, his show at Upfor

Gallery now through December 22.  Pugay talks about the semiotics of his

imagery, his learning the CMYK screen printing proc...

On Tuesday November 27, 2018, Joseph Gallivan interviews Robert Hoffman of

the American Institute of Architects. Hoffman talks about the legacy of

Whitney M. Young’s speech on diversity in architecture 50 years ago, and

which cool buildings to go as a result of the recent 2...

“I buried my negatives in the ground in order that there should be some

record of our tragedy.” — Henryk Ross

 

On Tuesday November 20, 2018, Amanda Clem interviews Julia Dolan about the

photography show Memory Unearthed: The Lodz Ghetto Photographs of Henryk

Ross  at the...

Portland Art Museum offers an unprecedented opportunity to aficionados of

Asian culture and history with an exhibit titled Poetic Imagination in

Japanese Art, which opened in recent weeks. Curator Maribeth Graybill visits

Art Focus and talks to Eric Bartels about the sho...

On Tuesday October 30, 2018, Joseph Gallivan interviews  Bethlehem Daniel

and Mia O’Connor-Smith of open mike night Deep Underground, who discuss

Monuments, their show about Sun Ra and his Arkestra. They talk about the

reproduction costumes and hand-drawn record sleeves in ...

On Tuesday October 23, 2018, Joseph Gallivan interviews art critic Jeff Jahn

[PRONOUNCED YARN] about his new essay Portlandageddon.  Jahn talks about the

effect of new money and new blood on the city’s cultural scene, how the

city council sees the arts through an affordable...

An offbeat collection of art designed to be poked, prodded and more has been

delighting visitors to Paragon Arts Gallery in North Portland. Can Touch This

co-curator Dominic Amorin is also one of the originators of Public Annex, a

local collective of both disabled and no...