West Texas Triangle: Moroles
Texas sculptor Jesús Moroles, the 2007 Texas Medal of Arts winner in the Visual Arts category, is no stranger to the Old Jail Art Center. Museum co-founded Bill Bomar, himself a recognized artist, bought early work from Moroles and commissioned him to do a monumental sculpture for the Old Jail’s Marshall R. Young Sculpture Courtyard. The resulting Granite Sun has been the museum’s signature sculpture since it was installed in 1984. It was preceded on the museum’s grounds by the popular Moonring Three, given by Bomar in 1982. Moonring Three represented the State of Texas in a landmark exhibition on the grounds of the White House in 1995.
The Old Jail Art Center is pleased to join with its partners in the West Texas Triangle Consortium of Art Museums in presenting a region-wide exhibition of the work of Jesús Moroles this summer. In the Reilly Nail Gallery, OJAC will present new sculpture as well as monumental work on paper. Other aspects of Moroles’s work will appear at the Grace Museum, Abilene; the Museum of the Southwest, Midland; the Ellen Noel Art Museum in Odessa; and the San Angelo Museum of Fine Arts. On June 23, Moroles will appear in the Old Jail’s Sculpture Courtyard to present “Harmony in Stone,” a participatory performance art piece. The “rock” concert is free and open to the public. This early evening performance will precede the Fandangle that evening and should be quite a draw for museum members and visitors alike.