It's a wonderful life
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.
We were all in shock and decided to make a memorial poster for him using the blank Italianate “death poster” they had brought home. I Xeroxed ANDY WARHOL from the cover of the New York Post announcing his death, replaced the poster’s orginal illustration of praying hands with Andy’s high school yearbook picture and added a quote from the bible. We printed 1,000 of them and had them plastered in the streets of downtown Manhattan. Several were given to our friend, art curator Diego Cortez, who gave one to Warhol’s brother Paul. Warhol Memorial poster, 1987, 22 by 30 inches lithographic print, designed by Trey Speegle













