Black & White Gallery/Project Space /WHO LIKED US

04/06/2021

THE PRESENTATION PREMIERES THE ARTIST’S ABSTRACTED LANDSCAPE PAINTINGS HIGHLIGHTING HIS FASCINATION WITH NATURE OF THE EAST END OF LONG ISLAND.

03/23/2021

”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 K...

03/23/2021

Spring 2021 : Natural Landscapes
Curated by Tatyana Okshteyn, founder of Black & White Gallery/Project Space. The show will be hosted at the Southampton studio of her late husband, Shimon Okshteyn and will premiere his abstracted landscapes created in 2018-2019, the last two years of his life.

http://www.blackandwhiteartgallery.com/upcoming

02/26/2021

Shimon Okshteyn, Satisfaction, oil on canvas, 1984.

The artwork will be included in the upcoming visual encyclopedia of Witchcraft published by Taschen. This will be the third book in the series entitled The Library of Esoterica. It showcases art birthed through the expression of various esoteric traditions.

The image will be accompanied by the excerpt from the essay 'Watch Out For Shimon Okshteyn's Witches' written in 1985 by the French playwright and art historian José Pierre.

"Some men are so made that for them women provide a constant spectacle. Shimon Okshteyn is such a man. And so it is that those women who contrive to reinforce their powers of seduction would inevitably attract the attention of a man who watches women and who is an artist! Besides, how can an artist worthy of that name not observe women? Have they not been since the beginning of time as much a lesson in the art of inciting the look of another, be it that of their own rivals, as in the art of using forms and colors. Thus Shimon Okshteyn looks at women. He looks at THESE women, but considers them not only as masters of the “art of behavior” about which so much has been said these past few years, or of the art of painting their faces, but as quite monstrous creatures who, in the theater of sexual attraction, unrelentingly play out the comedy of losing souls — their own and those of the ill-fated men or women who fall into their nets. Besides, do they merely play this comedy, or are they their first victims?"

02/11/2021

On view in our virtual space

02/01/2021

East End Collect at the Southampton Arts Center curated by Paton Miller currently on view until April 11, 2021.

Shimon Okshteyn, Hand in the Mirror | wood, fiberglass, acrylic on canvas | 24"x16"x16", 1997

01/31/2021

East End Collect at the Southampton Arts Center currently on view until April 11, 2021.

Shimon Okshteyn, Triptych (Lady in Waiting #1, Lovers, Lady in Waiting #2), Found objects, Italian porcelain, bar stool | 58"x 14" each, 2013

www.okshteyn.com

01/28/2021

12/10/2019

Hyperallergic.com

Catch a strike for climate change, in addition to the yearly fairs, public art installations, and more. We suggest you arm yourself with a strong Cuban cafecito and take to exploring.

12/10/2019

Art in America, December 2019