EUGENE–A Canadian art gallery director, a Chinese artist and a UO Asian studies graduate student will be guest presenters during July in conjunction with a visiting exhibition of contemporary Chinese art at the University of Oregon Museum of Art, 1430 Johnson Lane.

Zheng Sheng Tian, director of the Art Beatus Gallery in Vancouver, British Columbia, will discuss the reception of contemporary Chinese artists in the West from 6 to 8 p.m. on Wednesday, July 21, for MusEvenings!, the museum’s free after-hours programming.

From July 21—28, Wang Gongyi of Hangzhou, China, will create her artwork during regular gallery hours as artist-in-residence at the UO art museum. The public is invited to watch Gongyi whose eight-day project will conclude with a discussion of her work at 6 p.m. during the MusEvenings! program on July 28.

Nicky Combs, a UO graduate student in Asian studies, will give a gallery talk related to the Chinese art exhibition at 2 p.m. on Sunday, July 25, at the UO Museum of Art.

The lectures and artist’s residency directly compliment the UO art museum’s summer exhibition, "Transience: Chinese Experimental Art at the End of the Twentieth Century," which will be on display through Sept. 12.

The "Transience" exhibition, curated by Wu Hung, an eminent historian and scholar of Chinese art, is organized by the David and Alfred Smart Museum of Art at the University of Chicago. It is made possible by the Smart Family Foundation, Inc.; the Lannan Foundation; the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts; and the Nathan Cummings Foundation, with the support and encouragement of Beatrice Cummings Mayer, Mary and Roy Cullen and the John Nuveen Co.

The UO Museum of Art, accessible to people with disabilities, is open from noon to 8 p.m. Wednesday and from noon to 5 p.m. Thursday through Sunday. Special admission for the "Transience" exhibition is $5 which includes other museum galleries. Suggested general admission for the museum alone is $3, except on Wednesdays when the MusEvenings! program offers free extended viewing hours from 5 to 8 p.m. Museum members, students, UO employees and children are admitted free to the "Transience" and other museum galleries at all times.

For information, browse http://uoma.uoregon.edu or call (541) 346-3027.

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