Jesús Moroles
Born in Texas, raised in Texas, and now one of Texas' leading artists, Jesús Moroles carves his international career and work from his studio in Rockport, Texas. Born in 1950 in Corpus Christi, Moroles received his BFA from North Texas State University in Denton. After working in the quarries of Pietra Santra in Italy, Moroles returned to Texas. His studio is a family affair which involves Moroles' parents, brother, sister, and brother in-law. Moroles' large scale granite sculptures often create a kind of sacred space within a city's previously built structures. His works include "Floating Mesa Fountain" for the Albuquerque Museum in New Mexico; forty-five sculptural elements and fountains for Birmingham Botanical Gardens in Alabama; "Lapstrake" for the E.F.Hutton, CBS Plaza in New York; and, the Sculpture Plaza for Ulirch Museum in Wichita, Kansas. Moroles was a featured artist in the "Contemporary Hispanic Art in the United States" exhibit which toured to Houston's Museum of Fine Arts, the Corcoran Gallery in Washington, Santa Fe's Museum of Fine Arts, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, and the Brooklyn Museum. In addition to commissions, Moroles' work is accessible in the collections of Houston's Museum of Fine Arts, National Museum of American Art, Smithsonian in Washington, Dallas Museum of Art, Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, New Orleans Museum of Fine Art, the Mint Museum in Charlotte, North Carolina, the Equitable Life Assurance Society in Fresno, California, the Museum of Fine Arts, Santa Fe, New Mexico, the University of Houston in Texas, the Palm Springs Desert Museum in California, the Fondazione Umberto Severi, Carpi, Italy, and the Virlane Foundation in New Orleans, Louisiana.
