Art Focus

On Tuesday, Feb. 13, 2024, at 11.30 a.m. Joseph Gallivan interviews Erik Reel

about his show “Street” which runs at Laura Vincent Design & Gallery

through March 2.

Reel talks about abstraction, the connection between painting and music, Cy

Twombly, and his paintings "Origi...

On Tuesday, Jan. 23, at 11.30 a.m. Joseph Gallivan interviews artists Shu-Ju

Wang and Lynn Yarne about the new mural at Lincoln High School called

Restoration Roadmaps. They talk about how they used historical documents to

come up with the design of animals and plants surro...

On Tuesday, Jan. 16, 2024, at 11.30 a.m. Joseph Gallivan interviews artist

Chris Chandler about his show Elemental Forms, which is on now at Elizabeth

Leach Gallery through March 2. Chandler talks about his use of typeface as a

starting point in abstraction, his analog vers...

On Tuesday, Jan 9, 2024, at 11.30 a.m. Joseph Gallivan interviews Hannah

Theiss (PRONOUNCED TICE) about her show Aphelion, which is on now through Jan

27 at Blackfish Gallery. Theiss talks about moving from her day job in

graphic design through printing making to large scal...

WARNING: RERUN EPISODE On Tuesday Jan. 02, 2024, at 11.30 a.m. Joseph

Gallivan interviews curator Intisar Abioto about the show called Black

Artists of Oregon, which is on now at the Portland Art Museum through March

17, 2024.

Abioto https://www.intisarabioto.com/  talks a...

On Tuesday Dec. 26, 2023, at 11.30 a.m. Joseph Gallivan interviews  gallery

owner Charles Froelick  about “What the Crow Knows” a show of Rick

Bartow prints and drawings which is on now though January 27, 2024. Froelick

talks about Bartow’s concept of the trickster crow, hi...

On Tuesday Dec 12, 2023, at 11.30 a.m. Joseph Gallivan interviews Aurora

Josephson at the new downtown gallery Portland Arts Collective. Josephson

talks about several artists’ work in the show called Women’s Work. Many

of them are mature, female artists who have been on the...

On Tuesday Dec. 5, 2023, at 11.30 a.m. Joseph Gallivan interviews curator

Bruce Guenther about Helen Frankenthaler, a show of her prints which is on

now at the Oregon Jewish Museum through March 23, 2024. Guenther talks about

the famous painter’s approach to printing, her u...

On Tuesday Nov. 21, at 11.30 a.m. Joseph Gallivan interviews gallerist

Jeanine Jablonski about the new show I am a City of Bones at ILY2 Gallery on

now through Jan. 13, 2024.

Jablonski talks about several different artists’ work, her freedom to

curate the show, and the way...

On Tuesday, Nov. 14, at 11.30 a.m. Joseph Gallivan interviews gallerist Jane

Beebe about painter James Lavadour’s new show Planet Waves which is on now

at PDX Contemporary Art through Nov. 28. Beebe talks about Lavadour’s use

of color, the role of landscape in his abstract ...