23 Facts About Jacqueline Winsor

Vera Jacqueline Winsor was a Newfoundland-born American sculptor.

Vera Jacqueline Winsor was born in St John's, Newfoundland October 20,1941.

Jacqueline Winsor was the second of three daughters and the descendant of three hundred years of Canadian ships' captains and farmers.

One of Jacqueline Winsor's jobs was to "straighten the old nails and then hammer them down", an action she would later introduce into her own work.

Jacqueline Winsor's family moved frequently during the 1940s due to her father's job, between Newfoundland, Nova Scotia, and New Brunswick.

Jacqueline Winsor began her formal art studies at the Massachusetts College of Art, where she focused on painting.

Jacqueline Winsor is known for having consistently employed geometric forms like the cube and the sphere and she connected process with appearance.

Jacqueline 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.

The first sculptures Jacqueline Winsor created in New York were made with materials which are now associated with "anti-formal" sculpture.

Jacqueline Winsor began experimenting with rope dipped in latex or polyester resin to create linear shapes.

Jacqueline 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.

Jacqueline Winsor even remarked that those kinds of ropes "might be used to tie an ocean liner to its dock".

Jacqueline Winsor's 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.

Jacqueline Winsor remarked, "What interested me was that these abstractions had a physical presence because they were acted out with bodies," as opposed to "the hands-off sensibility toward abstraction" typically seen in minimalist sculpture.

Jacqueline Winsor used very involved, hands-on processes to create her sculptures, including nailing, wrapping, joining, and measuring.

Jacqueline Winsor's work-flow has been described as being slow and obsessive.

Jacqueline Winsor asserted her role as an object-maker by creating works with clear material integrity.

Jacqueline Winsor is known for her thick rope pieces, usually four-inch rope and combines that with natural wood.

Jacqueline Winsor kept a sculpture in her studio that has more meaning to her than a random passerby.

Jacqueline Winsor latterly taught at the School of Visual Arts in New York City.

Jacqueline Winsor was included in the exhibition More than Minimal: Feminism and Abstraction in the '70s at Rose Art Museum, along with Lynda Benglis, Jackie Ferrara, Nancy Graves, Eva Hesse, Ana Mendieta, Mary Miss, Ree Morton, Michelle Stuart, Dorothea Rockburne, and Hannah Wilke.

Jacqueline Winsor was married to Keith Sonnier from 1966 until 1980, when they divorced.

Jacqueline Winsor died from a stroke and brain hemorrhage in Manhattan, New York City, on September 2,2024, at the age of 82.