Current Show
"HELLBANGERS" July 20th - Aug 24th
Ephemeral Space Presents -
"Hellbangers - Ghana Movie Poster's vs Dr. Cyclops!!!"
Opening reception Saturday July 20th 5-9pm open Saturdays Through August 31st
Just in time for the Texas summer heat we bring you HELLBANGERS!
Dallas' own Dr. Cyclops brings his mind melting psychedelic visions back to the gallery. We have paired Dr. Cyclops latest paintings with a fresh batch of Ghana movie posters - a match made in hell - Hellbangers!!!
With the arrival of video and video cassettes in Ghana (West Africa) during 1980s, a small-scale film distribution mobile cinema was created. The local operators were equipped with a television, a video player and, occasionally, with a portable generator.
They were moving from place to place showing their films - sometimes inside social clubs or houses and at night in open air!
In order to gather as many spectators as possible, they had to advertise their business and they needed huge posters. Because of this, a new art form was born.
After viewing the films, talented artists created large size posters using oil paint on used cotton flour sacks sewn together.
In order to make the poster more attractive, the artist had the freedom to add and change scenes seen, or not seen, in the movie. Each of them is UNIQUE because they express the vision of the artist himself.
Starck Art - 40th anniversary art exhibit runs May 4th - May 18th
the opening Reception will be Saturday May 4th 5-8pm
Featured Artists - go to Current show page for available art
Halbert Levi “Little Man” Bowens
Halbert Levi “Little Man” Bowens
Halbert Levi “Little Man” Bowens
Little Man Bowens, (born 1940) is an outsider artist in the classic sense, in that he is untrained and driven to paint daily to quiet his mind. His visions include spacemen & rocket ships, cowboys, kings, leggy space women & super heroes. Inspired by his parents and faith and having given up alcohol, he is fueled by coffee and soda wa
Little Man Bowens, (born 1940) is an outsider artist in the classic sense, in that he is untrained and driven to paint daily to quiet his mind. His visions include spacemen & rocket ships, cowboys, kings, leggy space women & super heroes. Inspired by his parents and faith and having given up alcohol, he is fueled by coffee and soda water and paints with supplies he gets from the craft and hardware stores on his bus route. Most of his paintings are double-sided. When he runs out of board he paints on anything at hand, scraps of wood, cardboard boxes or his clothes & shoes. He favors basic colors of black, white, red, yellow, and blue with the occasional green. He almost always includes text and circular motifs, acting as framing elements, which gives his work a compositional graphic complexity.
Ike Morgan
Halbert Levi “Little Man” Bowens
Halbert Levi “Little Man” Bowens
Ike E. Morgan, (born in Rockdale, Texas- 1958) has always enjoyed painting portraits. His earliest known paintings from his high school days were historic portraits and he painted George Washington from the dollar bill when he was in the Austin State Hospital, where he resided from age 17 through age 41. Ike works in series based upon
Ike E. Morgan, (born in Rockdale, Texas- 1958) has always enjoyed painting portraits. His earliest known paintings from his high school days were historic portraits and he painted George Washington from the dollar bill when he was in the Austin State Hospital, where he resided from age 17 through age 41. Ike works in series based upon the materials he has on hand and what is in his mind. His work can be created with a wide range of materials. Ike is a confident man with a great personal style and loving manner. He paints every day, enamored with historic portraits and occasionally adding in pop culture figures from his youth, birds, or animals. This past year Ike transitioned to living in a nursing home and still paints everyday. He is currently obsessed with painting sheets of money.
Andy Don Emmons
Halbert Levi “Little Man” Bowens
Andy Don Emmons
Andy Don Emmons was born in 1966 in Fairfield, Texas, about an hour south of Dallas. He went to school in Huntsville, graduating from Sam Houston State University with a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1990. Now, he lives and creates art from his studio in the town of Waxahachie, building a sculpture park on the grounds of an old chicken farm
Andy Don Emmons was born in 1966 in Fairfield, Texas, about an hour south of Dallas. He went to school in Huntsville, graduating from Sam Houston State University with a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1990. Now, he lives and creates art from his studio in the town of Waxahachie, building a sculpture park on the grounds of an old chicken farm, and commuting to work cattle at his ranch outside Fairfield. His art cars have been shown far and wide, including at the Bob Bullock Texas History Museum in Austin, and his work is in the collection of the Art Museum of Southeast Texas, in Beaumont.
His life and work are permeated with an outsider sensibility, with rural imagery mining the lineage of earlier Texas regionalists like Otis Dozier and Jerry Bywaters. However, the feel of his work is more eccentric and visionary, in some ways kin to the paintings of Reverend Johnny Swearingen, whom Andy met as a young man. His work also feeds off the psychedelic vibe of bands like Thirteenth Floor Elevators and The Butthole Surfers, so it is no surprise he is a performing musician as well, playing as a part of Outhouse Moan and Inferno Texino.