JULY 2022
As Seen on the Radio
As seen on the radio is an exhibition of work by twenty artists who've been guests on the KONR Out North Radio program Art Matters, and has been curated by the host, artist Graham Dane. The exhibition showcases artists from Alaska and beyond, spans abstraction to figuration, includes photography, painting, drawing, printmaking and sculpture, and is as wonderfully eclectic as the radio program that brought them together.
Statement by curator Graham Dane
Art Matters first aired in August 2019 and airs on Saturday morning, 11.00am Alaska time. The first chat was with Juneau-based artist David Woodie the day after his show opened at Cyrano’s (September 2019) which had relocated from its original downtown location into what had previously been the Out North building. The program’s original intent to focus on Alaskan visual art and artists morphed into shows about visual art, visual culture, and aspects of art history quickly. Every artist in this exhibition has come on-air to talk about their work and practice.
In the last two-and-a-half years there have been interviews with sixty artists from Alaska, the Lower 48, Canada and Europe (UK and Sweden). Broadcasts have dealt, to name a few topics, with recent Black Lives Matter demonstrations and art, the 1937 Entartete Kunst exhibition/contemporary censorship, art-washing philanthropy, aspects of The Sublime, on science fiction tropes, comics/graphic novels and the depictions snow and ice across the centuries (with an Alaskan twist).
Out North Contemporary Art House originally applied for an LPFM (low power frequency modulation) license in 2002, under the guidance of co-founders Jay and Gene and a handful of knowledgeable volunteers. Permission was granted to build Anchorage’s first LPFM station in 2008. Operations began out of a VW microbus in 2010 and relocated to the former home of Out North in East Anchorage. In 2017 KONR moved operations to Downtown Anchorage for a short period before moving to a new studio space in the heart of Spenard. It’s still there.
From humble beginnings, KONR-LP now provides a platform to support local artists, emerging talent, it hosts important discussions and gives voice to under-served communities. Our current group of over twenty volunteers creates 40+ hours of original content every week; the station airs 40+ hours of Alaskan music - more than any radio station in Alaska.
A selection of Art Matters broadcasts can be heard at https://www.mixcloud.com/grahamdane/
Artists included in As seen on the radio:
Indra Arriaga Delgado
Paul Behnke
Terri Broughton
Simon Carter
John Coyne
Graham Dane
Dr. Herminia Din
Perry Eaton
Asia Freeman
Hal Gage
K N Goodrich
Virginia Katz
Ted Kincaid
Bonny Leibowitz
Linda Infante Lyons
David Myrvold
Alex Rydlinski
Sara Tabbert
Jane Troup
David Woodie
Read about each of the artists in this pamphlet compiled by Graham Dane:
