SHIMON OKSHTEYN: NATURAL LANDSCAPE
Abstracted landscape paintings capture the effect on the artist of the otherworldly quality to the nature of the East End of Long Island.
Shimon Okshteyn's first posthumous exhibition comprised of thirteen new paintings created in 2018 and 2019, marking the artist’s return from the world of manmade to the realm of the organic, the perishable and the swiftly passing.
Curated by Tatyana Okshteyn, founder of Black & White Gallery/Project Space, the show is hosted at the Southampton, Long Island studio of her late husband, Shimon Okshteyn.
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Okshteyn’s paintings are dreams into which we fall as though into a dangerous wishing well. Okshteyn’s paintings are dreams, in which reality is charged with hope as well as despair — charged with emotional depth and complexity we never truly experience except when we dream.
____ Donald Kuspit
ALSO ON VIEW:
Okshteyn's still-lifes—objects whose life has been stilled—not only explore the boundary between ordinary objects and poetic objects—non-art and found art—but between aesthetics and erotics.
___Donald Kuspit
STANLEY KNIFE | Graphite & pencil on paper mounted on canvas | 40”x 72” | 2002
PUSH PIN | Graphite on canvas | 14” x 10” | 2004
WINE GLASS | Graphite on canvas | 40” x 52” | 2008
STILL LIFE IN RED FRAMEWITH FLOWERS
Graphite and charcoal on canvas in mixed media frame
52”x 42” x 12”, 2005
