Wikipedia entry
Introduction
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. 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. 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); this was the first time MoMA had presented a retrospective of work by a woman artist since 1946. 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; "26 Contemporary Women Artists," April 18 – June 13, 1971, at the Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, curated by Lucy Lippard; and "Jackie Winsor: With and Within", October 19, 2014 – April 5, 2015, at the Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, curated by Amy Smith-Stewart.
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Introduction
Sculptor used a variety of materials to create her work. She emerged in New York alongside the Minimalists during the 1970s.
Nationalities
American, Canadian
Gender
Female
Roles
Artist, Sculptor
Names
Jackie Winsor, Jacqueline Winsor, Jacque Winsor
Ulan
500077642
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Works

5 works online

Exhibitions

Publications

  • Vital Signs: Artists and the Body Exhibition catalogue, Hardcover, 148 pages
  • Jackie Winsor Paperback, pages
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