Stan Wenocur Art | Figurative Work

untouchable refugee child
mixed media

aftermath 2
displacements of war

the dehumanization of refugees
as if they are untouchable; installation

Maine Coast 1 (sold)
charcoal on paper with colored pencil and acrylic, 20" x 27.5"

Maine Coast 2
charcoal on paper with colored pencil and acrylic, 20" x 27.5"

Maine Coast 3
charcoal on paper with colored pencil and acrylic, 20" x 27.5"

Maine Coast 4
charcoal on paper with colored pencil and acrylic, 20" x 27.5"

Tulip Poplars
charcoal on paper, 21 3/4" x 16 1/4"

Pleasure Place
charcoal on paper, 21 3/4" x 16 1/4"

David's Transformation 3
charcoal on paper, 18 x 24"

David's Transformation 4
charcoal on paper, 18 x 24"

Joel at Muir Woods
charcoal on paper

Ari
charcoal on paper, 14 x 11.5"

Avery
24" x 18"

Self Portait
charcoal on paper, 16" x 12"

Tom
charcoal on paper, 14" x 10.5"

Georgia
Mixed Media, 48 x 42"

Nude with Yellow PIllow
Mixed Media , 44" x 50"

Waiting - Self Portrait
mixed media on canvas, 44" x 54"

Friedlander Nude Juxtaposed
mixed media on board, 48" x 46"

A mixed media grouping, whose materials include: fiberglass, burlap, satin, leather, acrylic paint, wax, and leather. This installation grew out of a scene in a novel by Michael Ondatje called "In the Skin of a Lion". The scene dealt with immigrants who worked in a tannery dying leather in the early 1900’s in Ontario, Canada. The skin dyers would take hides fresh from the slaughterhouse and bring them to cisterns in the ground filled with dyes. They then beat the dye into the skins. When they finished, the skin dyers emerged from the vats covered in dye up to their necks. While the dye could be washed away, the smell never left them, and the chemicals they were exposed to lead to illness and early death.

Skin Dyers: Hung Out to Dry
A mixed media grouping, whose materials include: fiberglass, burlap, satin, leather, acrylic paint, wax, and leather. This installation grew out of a scene in a novel by Michael Ondatje called "In the Skin of a Lion". The scene dealt with immigrants who worked in a tannery dying leather in the early 1900’s in Ontario, Canada. The skin dyers would take hides fresh from the slaughterhouse and bring them to cisterns in the ground filled with dyes. They then beat the dye into the skins. When they finished, the skin dyers emerged from the vats covered in dye up to their necks. While the dye could be washed away, the smell never left them, and the chemicals they were exposed to lead to illness and early death.