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
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
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
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
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
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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