This playful and jewel-toned abstract candy wrapper collage was arranged by American artist Gladys Goldstein (b. 1918-d. 2010). She was a member of the Artists League of New York, and attended the Maryland Institute College of Art. Goldstein frequently employed textures that would give a topography to an otherwise flat surface. Her major inspirations are nature and light. Goldstein describes, “Light for me means many things, the light that brings life, the light that designates time and space, and the light within myself.” Her candy wrappers throw light in exciting and unexpected ways. Goldstein noted that she believes in the “permanence of impermanent things. Life is a part of things that are around you, so that sometime I will take an object that I find on the floor or something that I’ve collected and I’ll paste it to the canvas, because that is part of living.”
Her pieces have been exhibited in the Peale Museum, National Gallery of Art, The Baltimore Museum of Art, Morgan State University, Johns Hopkins University, and the College of Notre Dame.

 Signed lower left corner

Medium: Candy wrapper foil, handmade paper

Size of backing: 10” x 8” Size of art: 5” x 3 1/4”

Year of creation: c. 1990

 Condition: Mounted with archival hinges on acid-free fabric mat. In excellent condition.