JESúS MOROLES (1950–2015)

Clifford Pugh reports at the Dallas Morning News that the artist Jesús Moroles, known for his acre-wide installation Coming Together Park on the campus of the University of Science and Arts of Oklahoma in Chickasha, OK, was killed in a traffic accident near Georgetown, Texas on Monday. Moroles was born in Corpus Christi, Texas in 1950 and gained recognition throughout his life for large-scale sculptures which he made from granite. One of his works Lapstrake, 1987, a sixty-four-ton, twenty-two-foot-tall sculpture for the E.F. Hutton, CBS Plaza in New York, is installed across the street from the Museum of Modern Art.

In 2007 Moroles was awarded the Texas Medal of the Arts and in 2008 he was honored with the National Medal for the Arts. Jed Morse, curator of the Nasher Sculpture Center, said, “He dedicated the majority of his career to a single material—granite—and made that material sing.”