Ruth Stanford
PATERSON
JUNE 2 - JULY 14, 2007
Ruth Stanford received an MFA from Carnegie Mellon University in 2005 and a BFA from the University of Texas at Austin in 2000. She also holds BS and MS degrees in Zoology and worked as an endangered species ecologist prior to beginning a career in art. Before joining the faculty of the Ernest G. Welch School of Art and Design at Georgia State University in Atlanta,, Stanford served as an adjunct professor at Chatham College and Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, PA and the University of St. Francis in Illinois.
Ruth Stanford’s art practice revolves around installation and site-specific sculpture with particular media chosen in service to concept. Her work draws from and expands on personal reflection to create broader metaphors relevant to the world at large. Much of her work explores history and notions of presence/absence, permanence/impermanence, fiction/reality, conscious/unconscious. She views each element of a particular work as an individual data point referencing a complex phylogeny of personal and collective experience.
In 2004, Stanford received an award for Outstanding Student Achievement in Sculpture from the International Sculpture Center. In 2005, she received a $28,000 Creative Heights Artist Residency Grant from the Heinz Endowments to work in partnership with the Mattress Factory, a nationally prominent installation art venue in Pittsburgh, PA.
You can read more about Ruth’s work at:
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