Schick Art Gallery Summer Exhibition Combines Chinese, American Art

Misleading Trails, an exhibition combining Chinese and American art, will be displayed in the Schick Art Gallery from July 13 through Sept. 22. An opening reception will take place in the gallery from 6 to 7 p.m. Thursday, July 13. Dan Mills, one of the artists/curators of the exhibit, will give a lecture in Gannett Auditorium of Palamountain Hall at 7 p.m. Friday, July 21.

The exhibition, reception and lecture are free and open to the public. 
 
Seven artists -- Ai WeiWei, Xiaoze Xie, Hong Hao, Vernon Fisher, Enrique Chagoya, Dan Mills, and Hai Bo -- are featured in this exhibition, which was organized by the artists, China Art Archives and Warehouse, Beijing; and Samek Art Gallery, Bucknell University.

In an excerpt from the exhibition catalogue's essay, Xiaoze Xie describes how the exhibition investigates history, art, culture and personal experience as follows:

Misleading Trails is a result of our [Dan Mills and Xiaoze Xie] interaction and collaboration with a number of artists for a year and a half... The artists have been actively involved in the curatorial process of Misleading Trails, which can be regarded as an 'organically produced' show. Even though there is not a single theme or artistic medium linking all the works in the exhibition, there are diverse and complex correlations between the featured works. The natural merging of conceptual and visual elements, the layering and complexity of meanings, the questioning and challenging of cultural and political significance and established value systems, deconstruction or synthesizing of art forms, the ambiguity of artistic styles, all of these are the traits that this group of extremely individualized artworks share.

Gallery hours are 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Monday through Friday and 1 to 4:30 p.m. Saturdays through Aug. 3. The gallery closes for summer break from Aug. 4 through Sept. 4. Fall hours, beginning Sept. 5, are 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday through Friday and 1 to 4:30 p.m. weekends. Admission is free.