Black & White Gallery / Project Space is pleased to announce the details of our inaugural presentation of works from the Estate of the trailblazing American-Ukrainian artist Shimon Okshteyn.

The Artist Estate / Part 1 will feature a carefully curated selection of work from the Estate created by the artist from 1976 to 2019. This is the first presentation of Okshteyn’s works since his passing in 2020. His work has previously been shown at galleries in England, France, Germany, Italy, Russia and at Stux Gallery and OK Harris Works of Art in New York City.

The spotlight of this exhibition is on Okshteyn’s career-long inquiry into how process and material experimentation created entirely new ways to find images. Featuring twenty one works from the Estate, the exhibition traces Okshteyn’s artistic evolution, from his early cityscapes and figurative paintings to his iconic black and white graphite paintings and late vibrant abstract landscapes.

'There Are Many Forms But Few Classics,' the Art of Shimon Okshteyn

A Survey of the Work of Shimon Okshteyn

Shimon Okshteyn: The Artist Estate / Part 1 / There Are Many Forms, But Few Classics – Opening Reception

Black & White Gallery / Project Space Presents Works From The Estate Of Artist Shimon Okshteyn

Black & White Gallery Host Opening Reception

From Robert Runtak private collection

National Arts Club
November 5—29, 2024

CYFEST 15: VULNERABILITY

VOLTA NY 2024
“Memories of the Past” (1980-1982) is the selection of evocative works on paper by Ukrainian-American artist Shimon Okshteyn (b. Chernivtsi, Ukraine, lived and worked in New York City) were created by the artist soon after his immigration to the USA from Ukraine. The presentation perfectly exemplifies the literal, metaphorical, and personal memories that stay with us across time and space.

In "Dreaming Of My City" watercolors the artist created imaginative reconstructions of his native Ukrainian city, rendering the city once deeply familiar unfamiliar, moving away and floating freely in space.

"Don't Forget There Are Relatives" drawings are of the old Jewish cemetery in Chernivtsi. The cemetery has been long closed and is weed-choked. The drawings accurately portray toppled and tilting gravestones with Jewish religious symbols and offer haunting testimony to how much the memory of this once vital Jewish community has been relegated to an almost abandoned past.

Art on Paper New York, September 7-10, 2023

Hamptons Fine Art Fair , July 13-16, 2023

Black & White Gallery

The Ukrainian - American artist Shimon Okshteyn is best known for his distinctive black & white works.

This show presents a series of monochrome works made between 2000 and his death in 2020 where his individual gesture in painting was taken to new levels of aggression and was manifested by assaults on his canvases with evocative slashes and holes.

Eleven paintings, three works on paper and one glass sculpture are all inspired by the lily flower, or lilium in Latin, a symbol of purity, innocence and rebirth.

“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, New York City.

Sustaining Vision: Recent Gifts and Purchases for the Museum of Art Collection
APR. 29 — JUNE 11, 2022

The Grinnell College Museum of Art presents exhibitions of regional, national, and international artists throughout the year in the Faulconer Gallery, a 7,420 square feet of state-of-the-art exhibition space at the heart of the Bucksbaum Center for the Arts.

Image:
Shimon Okshteyn
Sofa, 1995
Acrylic on canvas, 71”x 91”
Mixed media on sofa

National Arts Club
BLOOM! A Celebration of Spring
May 10 - June 22, 2022

This seasonal exhibition will feature works by Fabrizio Arrieta, Carlos Quintana, Larry Poons, Mark Tobey, Will Barnet and selections from the Permanent Collection. The show will also pay tribute to the Ukrainian- American artist Shimon Okshteyn (1951- 2020) with an installation of a major work from his Reflections series.

Pictured: Shimon Okshteyn, From the Reflections series, 2007

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ID ART/TECH: Selections from the Kolodzei Art Foundation and Frants Family Collections at TMORA, Minneapolis, MN, 2022

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In 2005 Shimon Okshteyn began merging his interest in conceptual and figurative representation by adding mirror to canvas. This exhibition traces the evolution from the combination of graphite copies of old masterpiece paintings and contemporary graffiti art (2005-2007) to images of popular street drugs (2008-2010) to “documentary portraits” (2014).

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OpenSea - Modern Sirens by Shimon Okshteyn

"Shimon Okshteyn, Satisfaction, 1984" included in "Witchcraft. The Library of Esoterica" hardcover, 520 pages book published by Taschen in October, 2021.
”There is a certain victim/voyeur vice when viewing the seductive prowess in the modern siren paintings of Okshteyn. Their relationship to the element of fire is significant in cigarette smoke, and in Satisfaction, a look of gratified glam and gloat.”

Tribute to Shimon Okshteyn

Interview

EEC6 pays tribute to two East End Collected alums lost in 2020, David Geiser (EEC1) and Shimon Okshteyn (EEC4)

Publisher : Impressum/Imprint, 2018
Language : English, German
Hardcover : 198 pages
ISBN: 978-3-00-061549-8
Printed in Germany

Published on Sep 11, 2021

Part 2 / Timeless Style