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The University Museum of Contemporary Art will hold an opening reception Wednesday, Jan. 30 for Terry Winters and Xylor Jane, two artists whose works will be on display in separate exhibitions at the museum from Jan. 31 through April 28.

The program begins with a walk-though of the exhibition “Xylor Jane: Counterclockwise” led by the artist from 5:15-5:45 p.m.

From 6-6:30 p.m., Winters will be in conversation with Claire Gilman, curator of the exhibition “Terry Winters: Facts and Fictions.”

There will be a reception for both artists from 6:30-7:30 p.m. in the Fine Arts Center lobby.

A leading figure in the art world for four decades, Terry Winters became well-known in the 1980s for his materially conscious drawings, prints and paintings. Mobilizing the patterns and schema that undergird physical and intellectual life, Winters has developed his own pictorial language in which grids, networks and knots describe complex encounters between biological drives, technological systems and mental processes. From the beginning, drawing has been a pivotal part of Winters’s production.

Organized by The Drawing Center, New York, the Winters exhibition presents an overview of Winters’s drawings from 1980 to the present, the first such exhibition in the U.S. It includes a selection of large-scale works on paper as well as a wide span of smaller drawings and a suite of rarely seen notebook pages. An exhibition catalogue will be available.

Greenfield-based Jane’s hypnotic paintings are rooted in mathematical concepts, numerology and love. Devotional portraits of gridded Arabic numerals hold personal significance to the artist but are intended to spark a visceral experience for the viewer. The subjects include tetradic primes, Fibonacci sequences and magic squares. The colors emerge from a seven-hue system that holds space for our curiosity, despair and aspiration.

Visit umass.edu/umca for updates and additional information on both exhibitions.

UMCA is open Tuesday-Friday, 1-4:30 p.m.; Saturday and Sunday 2-5 p.m.; and until 8 p.m. on first Thursdays. Admission is Free.