
Fifty-Fifty
<p>In the mid-197os the Post-Minimalist artist Jackie Winsor turned her attention to the cube, a shape central to the rigid geometries of Minimalist sculpture from the previous decade. Winsor worked with the form exclusively for the next two years, rendering it unexpectedly flexible and even porous.</p><p>Constructed from more than 1,500 wooden strips, regularly spaced and nailed crosswise in successive layers, <em>Fifty-Fifty</em> is comprised of equal parts positive and negative space. As Winsor once remarked, her interest was in "creating a balance between the physical grid and an intangible grid-bringing openness and airiness into the pieces and still retaining their solidity."</p>
Catalogue
- Year
- 1975
- Medium
- Wood and nails
- Dimensions
- 101.6 × 101.6 × 101.6 cm (40 × 40 × 40 in.)
- Collection
- Art Institute of Chicago
- Artist
- Jackie Winsor
Artist

Sculpture
Vera Jacqueline Winsor 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.
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- Jackie Winsor
- Year
- 1975
- Medium
- Wood and nails
- Dimensions
- 101.6 × 101.6 × 101.6 cm (40 × 40 × 40 in.)
- Watts ID
- WW-1975-134054
Source
- Collection
- Art Institute of Chicago
- Source
- aic
- Reference
- View at source
- Status
- verified


