Erin Wright

Death Is Not Justice (2011)

Erin Wright got his Master of Fine Arts degree with a concentration in Graphic Design and Illustration at the University of Arizona and his Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in Graphic Design at Colorado State University. As a Graphic Designer he has participated in over 90 international exhibitions in 22 different countries. He has been honored multiple times, to name a few, he got a Honorable Mention at the second and third International Socio-Political Poster Biennale in Auschwitz, Poland; Silver Award for a poster that was in the Social/Political Posters book produced by Graphis; and Designer of the Year along with Illustrator of the Year at the Birmingham ADDY Awards. His work is part of many collections such as Robert Irwin archive at the J. Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles; Fourth Block International Triennial of Eco Posters in Kharkov, Ukraine; and The International Poster Collection at Colorado State University. Wright is also the co-founder of Posters Without Borders, a biennial international invitational poster exhibition.

For his work, Death Is Not Justice, he created the poster for Tomorrow exhibition advocating for the abolishment of capital punishment. Wright believes there are many reasons to oppose the death penalty but he believes that a civil society doesn’t have the right to decide whether or not that person dies. He thinks that capital punishment is the death of justice. I like this poster because it reminds me of a tarot card which is what got my attention.

ReGENERATION (2020)

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