Bridges 2026 Exhibition of Mathematical Art, Craft, and Design
Socorro Reyes Ramirez, Zdenka Guadarrama
Artists
Zdenka Guadarrama
Professor of Mathematics
Rockhurst University
Missouri, USA
Statement
Zdeňka Guadarrama is a mathematics educator and artist whose work explores the creative possibilities that emerge when mathematics, art, and community meet. Over the past four years, she has developed yearlong mathematical art projects that culminate in large community installations, revealing the richness that arises from connection, individual contribution, shared creation, and learning. Through mathematically inspired forms, her work brings people together to create beauty, meaning, shared experience.
Artworks
Corazón
48.0 x 83.0 x 31.0 cm
cardboard, tissue paper, acrylic paint, lamp
2026
Part of Many Faces: One Light, a Kansas City community MathArt exhibition in which more than 400 participants create illuminated convex polyhedra from golden rhombi, Corazón is a collaborative work by Zdeňka Guadarrama and Socorro Reyes Ramirez. Created as a Bilinski dodecahedron, it combines laser-cut cardboard, translucent stained-glass-like inserts, paint, and light. The piece evokes a luminous, lacquer-like richness, with organic lines creating continuity between the geometry and the symbolic patterns of the design. Reyes Ramirez’s painting responds to cut patterns designed by Guadarrama, while hearts, hummingbirds, flowers, and serpentine motifs connect the geometry to vitality, transformation, and encounter.