all artworks on this page ©Charles Wince

Charles Wince paints on the walls of WinceWorld, canvas, and bas relief layers of wooden cutouts. Subjects range from personal experience, to cultural commentary. His first apartment in Columbus was above a burlesque theater where the regulars of a local bar populated his painting “Scars and Bars” a kind of The Iceman Cometh like commentary about bar culture (#1 above).  Through the “thin walls” of his apartment, the sounds and voices of the dysfunctional family next door provided the narrative for “The Walls inside my Mind…” (#2).  Commenting on the 1950’s culture of his childhood, “I Miss My Mother as Well as the Woman she had always Wished to become” shows his mother as a high jumping cheerleader wood cutout suspended on small chains, legs spread with a toothy smile vagina (#6 above).  Public figure include Julian Assange – displayed outside next to the front porch during Assange’s confinement (#22), Donald Trump as an Ahab-like figure (#18), and Anthony Fauci (#24).

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• Art Environments - Midwest | Photos by Fred Scruton