Iconic images of Tifton and surrounding area recreated in" faux" stained-glass by Ruth Stanford.

Plough Gallery
216 8th Street West
Tifton, Georgia 31794
229.396.4200
ploughgallery@outlook.com

"'Lightbox' is a collection of works inspired by Tifton and surrounding areas of south Georgia. Referencing the colors and patterns of medieval stained glass, 'Lightbox' celebrates the places and spaces of Tifton and its history using light, bright colors, and familiar local imagery." --Ruth Stanford

Sculptor Ruth Stanford began her career studying butterfly courtship behavior and protecting cave-dwelling beetles and other invertebrates as an endangered species ecologist for the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service in Central Texas. With a scientist’s curiosity and keen observation skills, she now specializes in installation and site-specific sculpture, choosing particular media in service to concept.

Stanford’s work draws 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, and conscious/unconscious. Often it relies on the language, ideas, and tools of science.

An associate professor of sculpture at Georgia State University in Atlanta, Stanford received an MFA from Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh and a BFA from the University of Texas at Austin. Her zoology degrees are from UT Austin (BS) and Arizona State University (MS). Before joining the Georgia State faculty in 2005, she served as an adjunct professor at Pittsburgh’s Chatham College, Carnegie Mellon University, and the University of St. Francis in Joliet, IL.Her recent work has appeared in the inaugural exhibition at the Zuckerman Museum of Art in Kennesaw, GA; Agnes Scott College in Atlanta; Saratoga Art Center in Saratoga Springs, NY; and William and Mary University in Williamsburg, VA.

An avid bird watcher and history nerd, she can lasso a lizard with dental floss, a skill she learned as an undergraduate science major. She has a particular affinity for Cardigan Welsh corgis, weight lifting, bicycles, and dead people.

This new exhibit will amaze you! A new art installation will be unveiled at Plough Gallery Saturday, January 26, 2019, featuring works by artist Ruth Stanford of Atlanta, Georgia.

Opening Reception for Lightbox begins at 5 PM with artist talk by Ruth Stanford at 6 PM. The evening should wrap-up around 7 PM.