Artist Statement:
As a multidisciplinary artist with a background in architecture and Buddhism I produce work that is related to these practices. To satisfy my curiosity and love of making things, the creative process could begin either spontaneously with how to use found objects or conceptually with the search for material to communicate meaning.
My work explores the potential of a variety of materials that when assembled and used, create for me experiences which are symbolic of truth or represent a glimmer of the characteristic known as wisdom. The work presents an environment that eases and calms the discursive mind of the observer, generating a moment of clarity and awareness that produces an openness in consciousness like that of a child full of wonder.

Biography:
Pedro Morales (Los Angeles, CA, 1963) earned Bachelor of Architecture from the University of Texas @ Arlington in 1990 and a Master of Architecture from SCI-Arc (Southern California Institute of Architecture) in Los Angeles and Switzerland in 1996.

Worked with Frank O. Gehry architects in summer of 1996. Opened antares architecture studio in Laredo, Texas in 1997. From 1998 to 2010 designed and built a number of residential and commercial buildings and projects. Has exhibited Red Metal Samples, oxidized copper paintings. aerials, digital photography images documenting possible urban design strategies and Mindscapes, abstract oil paintings exploring conditions of mental and emotional states. In 2013 participated in an art residency in San Ygnacio, Texas under the guidance of artist Michael Tracy and worked as his studio assistant until 2015. In 2019 had solo show called circles of light and the cloudless blue sky at the Laredo Center for the Arts. In 2020 elected to board of directors of the Laredo Center for the Arts where in 2021 initiated and formed with artists and art advocates the Art Acquisition Project with the intention to promote, collect and exhibit art and artists of Laredo, the Texas Mexican border, regional and Northern Mexico.

Has been a member of Casa Tibet Mexico since 2001 and Tergar International since 2009. In 2007 participated in a three month retreat “Shamatha Project” designed to study attentional, emotional and physical benefits of meditation practice directed by B. Alan Wallace in Colorado. Has traveled to Asia, around the US and Mexico to attend meditation retreats and Tibetan Buddhist teachings. In 2016 completed a solitary six month meditation retreat in contemplative observatory in Valle de Bravo, Mexico.