Steven Wright & John Morton, Meha, Offset Poster, 1984

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Steven Wright / John Morton, Meha, 1984; two color offset print poster on newsprint, 35 x 23 in.

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Morton recalls that he added the pseudo Russian lettering to make it look like “a sci-fi, agitprop prize fight poster.”

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Morton’s robot figure would become “Phoenix House Man” (1986), a 15 foot welded steel sculpture created for a drug rehabilitation center in the Bronx.

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Talk is Cheap: A Street Poster Exhibition, 1984
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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…