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Talk is Cheap: A Street Poster Exhibition, 1984

In the 1970s and 80s much of downtown New York lay in decay but amidst the economic squalor a surprising art renaissance emerged along the district’s streets and walls. Most people remember the graffiti from that period but of equal interest was the profusion of street posters. This was the…

Olivia Beens & Claire Seidl, Mammoth Cave, Offset Poster, 1984

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Olivia Beens / Claire Seidl, Mammoth Cave, 1984; two color offset print poster on newsprint. 35 x 23 in.

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From Olivia Beens: “I had an illustrated surgery book which interested me and I used it drawings as metaphors for my emotional/political state of mind…Mammoth cave was polluted at the time and I used it as an analogy for cancer in a person and how we were destroying the earth through various means.
I expressed my ideas to Claire and she came up with the top part of the poster——-leaves, earth, abstraction as I recall.”

Beens and Claire Seidl had recently done a collaborative exhibition called “She Gave Her Heart Away.”