Jacqueline Winsor

Jacqueline Winsor
Born
Vera Jacqueline Winsor

(1941-10-20)October 20, 1941
St. John's, Newfoundland
DiedSeptember 2, 2024(2024-09-02) (aged 82)
New York City, U.S.
Other namesJackie Winsor
Alma materMassachusetts College of Art and Design
Rutgers University
Known forSculpture
Spouse
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(m. 1966; div. 1980)​

Vera Jacqueline Winsor (October 20, 1941 – September 2, 2024) was a Newfoundland-born American sculptor. Her style, which developed in the early 1970s as a reaction to the work of minimal artists, has been characterized as post-minimal, anti-form, and process art.[1][2]

Informed by her own personal history, Winsor's sculptures from this period sit at the intersection of minimalism and feminism, maintaining an attention to elementary geometry and symmetrical form while eschewing minimalism's reliance on industrial materials and methods through the incorporation of hand-crafted, organic materials such as wood and hemp.[2][3]

Winsor exhibited her works in several exhibitions. In 1979, a mid-career retrospective of her work opened at the Museum of Modern Art, New York, (MoMA);[4] this was the first time MoMA had presented a retrospective of work by a woman artist since 1946.[5] Other exhibitions of her work included "American Woman Artist Show," April 14 – May 14, 1974, at the Kunsthaus Hamburg (Germany), curated by Sybille Niester and Lil Picard;[6] "26 Contemporary Women Artists," April 18 – June 13, 1971, at the Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, curated by Lucy Lippard;[7] and "Jackie Winsor: With and Within", October 19, 2014 – April 5, 2015, at the Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, curated by Amy Smith-Stewart.[3]

  1. ^ Johnson, Cecile. "Winsor, Jacqueline."
  2. ^ a b Detailed analysis of Winsor's "Four Corners" Archived March 16, 2018, at the Wayback Machine from the Allen Memorial Art Museum. Includes extensive bibliography on Winsor. Retrieved February 10, 2012
  3. ^ a b "The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum: Jackie Winsor: With and Within". issuu. Retrieved March 10, 2017.
  4. ^ Johnson, Ellen (1979). Jackie Winsor: The Museum of Modern Art, New York. Museum of Modern Art.
  5. ^ Information on Jackie Winsor Archived February 3, 2014, at the Wayback Machine from the Paula Cooper Gallery. Retrieved February 10, 2012
  6. ^ Kunsthaus Hamburg (1972). American Woman Artist Show. Kunsthaus Hamburg. OCLC 78820398.
  7. ^ Lippard, Lucy (1971). 26 Contemporary Women Artists. Ridgefield: The Museum. OCLC 64688990.