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When Trey met Mary (and Tarrantino, Warhol, Farb & Obama): A unique 30-year friendship is told in art
Jun 17, 2011 | 10:30 am
Trey Speegle met Mary Hayslip in 1980 on a disco dance floor of what is now Menil’s Richmond Hall. She remembers saying, “I think we’re going to be good friends." And they have been.
Photo by Kevin Hatt
THIRTY YEARS OF FRIENDSHIP & ART Editors' Note: Voodoo Pop: Thirty Years of Friendship and Art by Trey Speegle and Mary Hayslip [https: /www.artleaguehouston.org/exhibitions.html?content/exhibitionscontent.php#82] is on display through June 24 at the Art League of Houston [https://www.artleaguehouston.org/]. In this photo essay, Speegle explains the duo's friendship as told through art. -------------------------- I met Mary Hayslip in 1980 on a disco dance floor of what is now Menil’s Richmond Hall [https://www.menil.org/visit/flavin.php]. She remembers saying, “I think we’re going to be good friends." And we have been. Trey and Mary on the roof of his apartment building in the East Village, 1983