The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum

Jackie Winsor

Her practice resides at the intersection of Minimalism and feminism. Winsor’s early sculptures were task oriented, involving routine actions over intensive periods of time, and incorporated natural materials like rope and wood as well as building materials including bricks and cement. Weighing hundreds to thousands of pounds, their heft was testament to their strenuous construction. She focused on simple, geometric forms, at first the sphere and soon after the cube—chosen partly for its symmetry and its relation to the frame of a painting and a wall in a room—progressing later into combinations of the two shapes, all at the scale of the human body. Brick Dome of 1971 made its debut in Twenty Six Contemporary Women Artists and was completed on-site over three thirteen- hour days. On view is a related work from the same year, Brick Square, consisting of 300 stacked bricks.