BoBo Gallery

Friday, February 19th | 8:30 – 10PM | This is a free event

Info from themap.org:

This month’s Off the MAP (a MAP event devoted building community among MAPsters and celebrating the visual arts), is a Friday night afterparty for the Black Mountain College Museum and Art Center’s Ray Johnson exhibit kickoff event.

Johnson, the collagist whose art appears at the BMCM+AC from Friday through June 12, has been called the most significant “unknown artist” of the postwar period. He influenced Pop artists including Andy Warhol and Keith Haring, as well as a generation of contemporary artists.

Ray Johnson Show blog with images from the exhibit is here.

From BMC to NYC: The Tutelary Years of Ray Johnson (1943-1967) kicks off with an opening reception 6-8 p.m. Friday Feb. 19 (free for BMCM+AC members and students w/ID /$3 non-members), followed by…

8 pm is too early to call it a night if you’re already downtown. Walk over to Bobo (just a few blocks from the BMCM+AC) for wine, catered treats from Filo Pastries, spoken-word performances by Graham Hackett & Poetix Vanguard, plus multimedia/projection/interactive video fun from MAPsters Gene Felice, Scott Furr and Megan McKissack.