Artistic Fusion Dinner with Jesus Moroles

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September 11, 2009

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Friday September 11, 2009
7pm

 

Join us for this intimate evening with Jesus, one of the world's leading contemporary sculptors and an amazing five course dinner with wine pairings with each course. Jesus will discuss his art and his visions of the art world.  Over 2,000 original Jesus Moroles sculptures are in museums, public places, corporate and private collections.

 
$200.00 per person
RSVP to Darcie 610 696 5600 x12

Innkeeper's Kitchen
Dilworthtown Inn
1390 Old Wilmington Pike
West Chester, PA 19382

see the artist's website > www.moroles.com

 

The proceeds from this event will support the many art education programs provided by Chester County Art Assocaition to children and adults in our community.

 

About Jesus Moroles

Born in Corpus Christi, Texas in 1950 and educated with a BFA at North Texas State University in Denton, Texas, Jesús Moroles lives and works in Rockport, Texas.


After returning from a year of studio work in Italy in 1980, Moroles commenced to make the body of work for which he is widely known. Critical recognition for Moroles came quickly with many of his early exhibitions at Texas museums.


In 1981, Moroles purchased his first large diamond saw, which began his long term commitment to create a studio. In 1983, Moroles began his construction in Rockport. The workings of the studio became a family effort with the artist involving his parents Jose and Maria, his brother, Hilario, his sister, Suzanna, and brother-in-law, Kurt Kangas as integral parts of the Moroles Studio. This facility is unequaled in the country for the making of large scale sculptures.


In 1982, Moroles received the prestigious Awards in the Visual Arts Fellowship for which his works were included in a two year traveling museum exhibition which originated at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago, Illinois.


During this period, Moroles began making large scale works such as his 22 foot tall sculpture fountain, titled "Floating Mesa Fountain" for the Albuquerque Museum in New Mexico. In 1985, Moroles received a National Endowment for the Arts Matching Grant for an evironmental installation of 45 sculptural elements and fountains for the Birmingham Botanical Gardens in Birmingham, Alabama.


In 1987, Moroles completed his most visible work, "Lapstrake", a 64 ton, 22 foot tall sculpture for the E.F. Hutton, CBS Plaza in New York City located across the street from the Museum of Modern Art. During this time he received significant national attention with his inclusion in the landmark museum exhibition, "Contemporary Hispanic Art in the United States." Originating from the Museum of Fine Arts in Houston, Texas, the exhibition traveled to the Corcoran Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C., the Museum of Fine Arts in Santa Fe, New Mexico, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art and the Brooklyn Museum.


Moroles' largest single work is the 1991 site sculpture, the "Houston Police Officers Memorial." Comprised of granite and an earthen stepped pyramid surrounded by four equal inverted stepped pyramids excavated from the ground, the sculpture spans 120 feet by 120 feet.


Moroles established himself as one of the master sculptors of his generation with the recently completed (1996) "sculpture plaza" for the Edwin A. Ulrich Museum in Wichita, Kansas. In the tradition of his esthetic mentor, Isamu Noguchi, Moroles designed and sculpted from granite, a "Granite Landscape" comprised of terraced slabs forming a stone riverway, a 30 foot long "Fountain Wall" and a 30 foot long "Granite Weaving" wall. Together, these works create a single environment that serves as an entrance to the museum and an outdoor site to exhibit important sculpture.

 

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To date, Moroles' work has been included in over 130 one-person exhibitions and over 200 group exhibitions. He has lectured extensively about his work and the issue of public sculpture. His work has been the subject of numerous articles and reviews in ARTNEWS, Arts, Artforum, Artspace, Artweek, Newsweek, Southwest Art, Time, and The New York Times as well as several books such as America Art Now, Art in the Eighties, National Museum of American Art, Contemporary Art in Texas, and Contemporary Art in New Mexico, and A Comprehensive Guide to Outdoor Sculpture in Texas.