"Tex" Allen 
​Mixed Media Sculptures

Artist Statement:
 
I was a starving artist, but now after years of hard work, I get to eat…
Sometimes. 
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​“Tex” Allen
 
“Tex” Allen was born of parents who were both artists in Texas where he became fascinated by art at a very early age.  “I could draw before I could drawl,” he insists.  Traveling west, he landed in Hollywood, California and learned on the job as a migrant film worker.  After a decade in makeup and creature effects he began making art for other, more famous artists. “I went from sculpting ghosts, to ghost sculpting.”
 
There is a direct line through his work in makeup and creature effects to his highly realistic and detailed work as shown in this exhibition.