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Moroles, Jesús Bautista (1950 - 2015)

Found 3 Works by this Artist

• Houston Police Officer's Memorial
• Laura Lee Blanton Moonscape Bench
• Vanishing Edge

(1950 - 2015)

Lived and worked in Rockport, Texas

Jesús Bautista Moroles (American, Sep. 22, 1950 - Jun. 15, 2015) Jesús Moroles is internationally renowned as one of the greatest sculptors working with granite today. Through a process called ‘tearing’ Moroles transforms each block of hard stone into a delicately refined expression of the interaction between man and nature. He typically leaves fifty percent of the stone in its natural state when carving and from the other half he extracts the stone’s hidden aspects such as transparency, movement or sound. Many of Moroles’ pieces are interactive, and some can even be played as musical instruments.

Moroles was born into poverty during 1950 in Corpus Christi, Texas and raised in the Oak Cliff area of Dallas. With the strong work ethic taught to him by his father, Moroles earned a Bachelor of Arts Degree in Fine Arts from the University of North Texas in 1978, where he was later honored as a Distinguished Alumnus. After college he apprenticed for one year with the famous sculptor Luis Jiménez. During that year Moroles exhibited at the Shidoni Gallery in Tesuque, New Mexico and through the sale of his first piece he financed the dream of working for one year in Pietrasantra, Italy. When Moroles returned to the United States in 1980 he took up residency at a stone carving factory. There he produced work for his first one person museum show at the Amarillo Art Center in Amarillo, Texas.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jes%C3%BAs_Moroles