Fifty-Fifty

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.

Constructed from more than 1,500 wooden strips, regularly spaced and nailed crosswise in successive layers, Fifty-Fifty 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."