Portland writer and journalist David Shafer's new novel finds three people adrift. Their lives converge as they're drawn into a vast corporate conspiracy. The New York Times called the book a "clattering pop thriller that reads as if it were torn from the damp pages of Glenn Greenwald’s fever journal." Shafer tells us about bringing the book to life.
A self-described optic mechanic, Bill Hoppe has lived and painted in Bend for 14 years. He's got some huge, beautiful works on view this month at Laura Russo Gallery, as part of Non Finito, curated by Lucinda Parker. We sat down with Hoppe to talk about his use of color, his fixtation on the lens, and how he transitioned from theological studies to fine art in his late teens.
When Lucinda Parker was asked to curate a show this month at Laura Russo Gallery, she chose to feature artists she describes as having great focus. Ranging in age from their 40s through their 70s, George D. Green, Heidi Cody, Julie Green (no relation), and Bill Hoppe represent some wildly different views and visual languages. The resulting show is vibrant and crammed with ideas. Parker walks us through the show, and we hear from each member of the quartet about works they submitted.
Portland writer and journalist David Shafer's new novel finds three people adrift. Their lives converge as they're drawn into a vast corporate conspiracy. The New York Times called the book a "clattering pop thriller that reads as if it were torn from the damp pages of Glenn Greenwald’s fever journal." Shafer tells us about bringing the book to life.
We recap this year's Pickathon action, and meet one of the artists at a show in the Gorge, marking the 50th anniversary of the Wilderness Act: all it's meant to Oregon's wild places and artists inspired by them.
Lucinda Parker shows us around Non Finito, a show she's curated featuring four artists she loves. Also, we listen to a bit of an opbmusic session with Niger's TisDass.
We sit down with David Shafer to talk about his breakout debut novel, Whiskey Tango Foxtrot. Also, Trygve Faste talks about the intersection of studio art and design.
Portland writer and journalist David Shafer's new novel finds three people adrift. Their lives converge as they're drawn into a vast corporate conspiracy. The New York Times called the book a "clattering pop thriller that reads as if it were torn from the damp pages of Glenn Greenwald’s fever journal." Shafer tells us about bringing the book to life.
David Shafer's new novel, Whiskey Tango Foxtrot, is both a tech thriller and a meditation on three people becoming unmoored. Listen on this week's show (Saturday Aug 9th, noon Pacific) for our full interview. Til then, here's a clip of David reading from the book. One of his three protagonists, Mark, is drunkenly wandering around London, considering the ghosts of his past.
Given the amped-up energy of his performance works and the inspired lunacy of his video practice, you might think talking with Sean Joseph Patrick Carney would be like a free trial of street drugs. But he gave us generous and thoughtful takes on his own work, social practice, and poking complacency. Sean sat down with April and this week's guest curator, Victor Maldonado, onsite at PNCA. This is the unedited version of the interview. For the full show, visit our site. http://www.opb.org/radio/pr...
Karl Davis starts at Crow's Shadow Institute of the Arts the week of Aug 3rd.
Portland conceptual artist Victor Maldonado is our guest curator this week. He walks us through some of what he's been working on, and some artists he's paying attention to.
How one recent art school grad found her place in a setting that wasn't instantly welcoming.
Sean Joseph Patrick Carney talks talk pop songs, parodies, and his conflicted relationship with social practice art.
Victor Maldonado and a few other Portland artists explain the idea of an invisible college that exists in the creative community.
Guest curator Victor Maldonado explores stereotypes and the ideas of belonging and borders with his art. He fills us in on his latest work.
July 26 Segment 3: Cheryl Strayed, Laura Gibson by OPB's State of Wonder
July 26 Segment 2: Courtenay Hameister, Swan Sovereign by OPB's State of Wonder
July 26 Segment 1: Matt Sheehy, Arthur Bradford by OPB's State of Wonder
July 19 Segment 2: Sahel Sounds, Cash Music, Farnell Newton by OPB's State of Wonder
July 19 Segment 3: Jitney, Farnell Newton by OPB's State of Wonder
July 19 Segment 1: Farnell Newton, Liv Warfield by OPB's State of Wonder
0:15: Luke And Rachel Price perform as DEAN! 2:45: The Portland Mavericks baseball team 3:45: The Movies that made Wes Anderson
1:35: Art at the waste transfer station. 4:45: YIX and the art of the competitive gif 12:30: Kill Rock Stars Records adds comedians to roster
0:15: Run On Suntence's new music 1:15: Star Anna's broken heart on "Go To Hell" 7:00: Matika Wilbur's project to photograph every Indian tribe
Chelsea Cain, author (and survivor) of the Archie Sheridan series, schools us on how not to get clubbed, flayed, eviscerated or mauled this summer. Her new series launches with the novel, One Kick, in August. More over here... http://chelseacain.com/
00:00 PDA: A work of social practice re-interpreting family 04:45 Modern Kin at opbmusic's Stagepass series 10:45 Sara Swink on Oregon Art Beat
00:00 Quality time with poet and Professor Kwame Dawes. 06:05 A check-in on the documentary project Whitelandia 11:03 We catch some Porch Music with Third Angle Ensemble
Hope you don't mind us crashing your summer reading list, but we've got two hot ones for you. Chelsea Cain, who's publishing a new novel, One Kick, in August, schools us on surviving summer thrillers. And we hear from the author of one of the summer's breakout titles, Smith Henderson. His novel, Fourth of July Creek takes on difficult aspects of anti-government obsession, and violence against children. Henderson, who now works at Wieden+Kennedy, talks about an earlier stint in child protective s...
We check in with OPB Arts and Life Producer Ifanyi Bell on a story he's been following: the growing chorus of comment on two white filmmakers' project examining historic discrimination against black Oregonians.
