Quotes

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It's unusual, an artist that hasn't been to art school, in his case I think quite refreshing that the work he produces come so much out of his own experiences and his own life that it's a very powerful, very authentic statement.

- Barbara Haskell, Curator, Whitney Museum of Art, New York, WOSU Radio, 1984

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DESPITE HIS lack of formal artistic education, Wince gives his imagery a power that better- trained painters will never achieve. There is a cartoon like directness in his treatment of subjects. This sharpens the feelings of anger, threat and persecution pervading most of them.

- Jacqueline Hall. Columbus Dispatch Aug. 19, 1984

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In most neo-expressionism I miss the authentic edge of early twentieth-century German Expressionism... Wince keeps that edge or, more precisely, re-invents it out of his own experience. He poignantly characterizes his work as "as the scar tissue left over from more difficult times," and he's been through alot: childhood hyperactivity, a devastating fire that burned 80% of his body at age ten, adolescent suicide attempts, problems with drugs and alcohol. In this he fits the bill of the romantic artist - suffering, even self-obsessed. Wince is a committed, talented artist who has created his own vocabulary to capture his own vision.

- Ann Bremner, Associate Editor, Dialogue Magazine March/April '85

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Wince is a gifted and original painter and can take his place solidly among the best this city has produced

- Lesely Constable, The Columbus Dispatch, July 1992

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Wince's vivid expressionistic style has the look of illustrated popular fantasy or science fiction. It is used to depict forcefully a circumstance in which the line between irresponsible behavior and the mind run amok is unclear.

- From his book, Interface, Gary Schwindler, Ph.D. Professor of Art, Ohio University, Athens, OH, 1986

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Charles Wince's art is born out of a passion of exposing secret manias - his own and society's. What you see when you view a painting by Wince is a manic encapsulation of late twentieth-century popular culture-panoramic, condensed, and slightly askew.

- Lesley Constable, New Art Examiner, September 1988

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Wince's paintings are overfilled with great themes, grand narratives and beautiful images portraying the humor, joy and love of existence contrasted with the horror and pain we must all endure.

- Breck J. Hapner, Now It's Dark Magazine Sept.2002

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