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342:," as opposed to "the hands-off sensibility toward abstraction" typically seen in minimalist sculpture. Winsor used very involved, hands-on processes to create her sculptures, including nailing, wrapping, joining, and measuring. Winsor's work-flow has been described as being slow and obsessive. On average. Winsor produced only three sculptures a year. Winsor described her outlook, "Maintaining integrity toward the perfection you envisioned in the beginning is a constant concern. I spend an enormous amount of time just trying to imagine if an eighth of an inch at some point is going to make a major difference in the completed construction of the piece." Her work not only examines form and material, but also process, space, surface, weight, and density. Winsor asserted her role as an object-maker by creating works with clear material integrity. 338:. Rainer's work was experimental and its intention was to put the body back into abstraction and use it along with motion to create shape. Her performances were often based on particular actions or tasks, which Winsor felt had a relationship to the ways in which she herself performed tasks in her own work. Winsor remarked, "What interested me was that these abstractions had a physical presence because they were acted out with 331:, Winsor's sculptures did not aim to completely separate herself or her personal experience from the work she was creating. Winsor believed that an artist's work is a reflection of their inner selves and she demonstrated this in her rope pieces, as they relate back to her heritage of sea captains. Winsor even remarked that those kinds of ropes "might be used to tie an ocean liner to its dock". 345:
She is also known for her thick rope pieces, usually four-inch rope and combines that with natural wood. Winsor also kept a sculpture in her studio that has more meaning to her than a random passerby. It is a plain sphere over a foot in diameter made of solid concrete. To her, it was a perfect symbol
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Despite being referenced as making work that went against the macho-minimalist sculpture movement, Winsor said, "when I think about things like feminism, it seems to me a political moment that supported the life I've had….I support it 100 percent although I have no real interest in it in my work."
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manner. A large part of her adolescence was spent helping her father build houses. One of Winsor's jobs was to "straighten the old nails and then hammer them down", an action she would later introduce into her own work. Winsor's family moved frequently during the 1940s due to her father's job,
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The first sculptures Winsor created in New York were made with materials which are now associated with "anti-formal" sculpture. These materials included rubber sheeting, tubes, cord, and even hair. Winsor also began experimenting with rope dipped in
180:, 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 247:, where she focused on painting. It was not until her time in graduate school at Rutgers University, which she attended from 1965 to 1967, that she began to experiment with sculpture. Winsor received a B.F.A. degree from 279:
and she connected process with appearance. Winsor believed that her pieces of art are connected to specific occurrences in her life, however not directly connected by any personal events that she went through.
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was created in 1970 and is made from continuous lengths of rope that are cut into sections that are three feet long. They are bound together near their frayed ends to create a dense cylinder.
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October 20, 1941. She was the second of three daughters and the descendant of three hundred years of Canadian ships' captains and farmers. Winsor was brought up in an old-fashioned,
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Winsor's work can be categorized as process art, "anti-form", and "eccentric abstraction". She is known for having consistently employed geometric forms like the
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from 1966 until 1980, when they divorced. She died from a stroke and brain hemorrhage in Manhattan, New York City, on September 2, 2024, at the age of 82.
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was created in 1970 and is a seven-foot long stack of wood planks. They are put together and are densely nailed to each other at every layer.
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a six foot tall length of rope in which she embedded with a metal rod to keep it standing upright. Although visually similar to the works of
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Informed by her own personal history, Winsor's sculptures from this period sit at the intersection of minimalism and
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Winsor exhibited her works in several exhibitions. In 1979, a mid-career retrospective of her work opened at the
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An important influence for Winsor during this time was American dancer, choreographer, and filmmaker
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During the late 1960s, Winsor and her contemporaries, which included artists such as
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to create linear shapes.The first significant piece of her career was
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consists of a piece of rope that is as thick as a rope that ties an
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Jackie Winsor
St. John's
Newfoundland
Massachusetts College of Art and Design
Rutgers University
Keith Sonnier
Newfoundland
minimal artists
post-minimal
anti-form
process art
feminism
hemp
Museum of Modern Art
Lil Picard
Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art
Lucy Lippard
Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art
St. John's, Newfoundland
Anglophilic
Nova Scotia
New Brunswick
Boston
Massachusetts
Massachusetts College of Art
Massachusetts College of Art and Design
Rutgers University
Keith Sonnier
Joan Snyder
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