Black Mountain College Hosts Summer Exhibition of Work by Ray Johnson and Dick Higgins Related to "Paper Snake"

[De Villo Sloan]

I found this interesting item about a summer exhibition in North Carolina. Hopefully, the link can be accessed by all.

https://www.facebook.com/events/1448239385491588/

Direct link to Black Mountain College:

http://www.blackmountaincollege.org/exhibitions/upcoming-exhibition

[De Villo Sloan]

Thx - there has been interest in the Ray Johnson books.

We have IUOMA members near BMC and maybe others will travel this summer.

Looks like a great exhibition.

[Ruud Janssen]

I copied the text so now the link to the exhibition details is visible too.

[Ruud Janssen]

Come join Black Mountain College Museum + Arts Center for the opening reception of our summer exhibition centered around BMC Alum Ray Johnson's art book "The Paper Snake".

Lost for decades, the production materials from this innovative compendium of Ray Johnson's mail were only recently rediscovered, in time for the book's republication and the 50th anniversary of its 1965 release. Lively, quirky, often comic, the texts and drawings provide an intimate look at the early work of Ray Johnson (1927-1995) through the eyes of his friend Dick Higgins (1938-1998), one of the Fluxus movement's impresarios and the founder of the groundbreaking Something Else Press. Learn more at http://www.blackmountaincollege.org/exhibitions/upcoming-exhibition.

Reception features a Gallery Talk by exhibition curator Michael von Uchtrup.

Special thanks to: William S. Wilson, Frances Beatty, Rachel Graham, and Diane Bowers at Richard L. Feigen & Co.; Julie J. Thompson; Marie T. Stilkind; Walter Schnepel; Brian E. Butler; Connie Bostic; Susan Rhew Design; Henco Reprographics; and Vortex Doughnuts.