EUGENE–Britta Erickson, an independent scholar on Asian art, will give a lecture titled "Where is the Tradition in Transience?" for the University of Oregon Museum of Art’s MusEvenings! program on Wednesday, Aug. 11.

The free talk will begin at 6 p.m. at the Museum of Art, 1430 Johnson Lane. It is offered in conjunction with the art museum’s current exhibition, "Transience: Chinese Experimental Art at the End of the Twentieth Century," which will be on display at the museum through Sept. 12.

Currently a lecturer in Chinese art at Stanford University, Erickson is visiting curator for "1999: Art China" at the Limn Gallery in San Francisco where she organized and wrote the exhibition catalogue and advised on film documentaries.

In addition, Erickson is associate editor of "ArT RANDOM: The Nineties," a book series on contemporary Chinese art. She also wrote "Innovations in Contemporary Ink Painting," an article in the forthcoming book, "Modern and Contemporary Art South of the Yangzi River," to be published by UC Berkeley Press.

Erickson received a Samuel Kress Foundation Dissertation Fellowship in Art History.

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.

Accessible to people with disabilities, the UO Museum of Art 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—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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