PAPER SCULPTURE AND MORE

Small sculpture

 

In Gladkova’s small paper sculptures, the playful energy of her forms is set free. ​

In contrast to her larger sculptural ensembles, these works are meant to be held in one's hands, spun and rotated like Rubik’s cubes. They can stand on a horizontal surface, or be perched on the wall. ​

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Gladkova begins these sculptures with brightly colored construction paper, cut in an array of basic geometric shapes. She glues the sheets together by the edges, cuts the resulting forms, re-attaches them, inverts the forms inside out. Then she twists the ends of the paper surfaces, creating a sort of Möbius strip.   

 

A sculpture from this series, “Killer Sudoku,” was recently chosen by curator Eric Shiner for the exhibition “Transformations,” at the New Bedford Art Museum in New Bedford, Massachusetts.