St. Charles, MO – Ruth Stanford’s sculpture Inevitable Architecture is part of the Group IV show currently on display at the Foundry Art Centre.   Her 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, exploring history and notions of presence/absence, permanence/impermanence, fiction/reality, conscious/unconscious. She views each element of her projects as an individual data point referencing a complex phylogeny of personal and collective experience.

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.

The Foundry Art Centre is a fine arts gallery overlooking the Missouri River at 520 North Main Center, in the Frenchtown district of Historic St. Charles.  The Foundry features a Smithsonian-caliber art gallery hosting national juried exhibitions plus 20 working artist studios where visitors can watch the creative process and buy art directly from the artists.  The not-for-profit art centre also provides community meeting rooms, event space and a children’s art gallery.  Hours are Tuesday through Saturday, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. and Sunday, noon to 4 p.m.  Admission is free, and donations are welcome.  For more information, call (636) 255-0270 or visit www.foundryartcentre.org